Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the w…

Terry Pratchett
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Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you could use them, you could change them.
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