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“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

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“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?”
― Steven Wright

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“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

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“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

tags: elegance, philosophy, simplicity

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