The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Grea…

Arundhati Roy
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The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably... in the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2002). The God of Small Things, p.229, Penguin Books India
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