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Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts

by Ryan Holiday (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 02, 2017 07:04AM

David’s Quotes

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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“Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

tags: bubonic-plague, butterflies, hurricane, renaissance, yersinia-pestis

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“-Dream up something wild and improbable. Something beautiful and full of monsters.

-Beautiful and full of monsters?

-All the best stories are.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: beautiful, calixte, dream, dreamer, laini-taylor, monsters, stories, story, storytelling, strange-the-dreamer

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“There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.”
― Charles deLint, Dreams Underfoot

tags: faerie, fantasy, life, story

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“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

tags: change-the-world, stories, story, sunrise, world

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