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Benjamin Appleby-Dean

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean is a complex event sometimes mistaken for a writer. When recognisably human, they live in the North-East of England with their wife and a collection of dysfunctional animals.

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Average rating: 3.82 · 51 ratings · 22 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Stickman's Legacy 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lamplight 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Squire's Tale 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Sovereign (Magic of the Lost, #3)

by C.L. Clark (Goodreads Author)

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Quotes by Benjamin Appleby-Dean (?)

“When life ends it's like a book losing pages or a song skipping. It's abrupt and it doesn't make sense.”
― Benjamin Appleby-Dean, The Stickman's Legacy

tags: mortality, narrative, philosophy

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“Time goes faster when it's spent
On slowing steps to look behind
To let the spool of years unwind
And dream of all my yesterdays”
― Benjamin Appleby-Dean, Cold Stone Secrecy: Twelve Poems

tags: memory, poetry

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“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

tags: adult, childishness, maturity

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“Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

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“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: epistemology, future, philosophy

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