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

by Ryan Holiday (Goodreads Author)

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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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“-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 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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“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

tags: conflict, story, unhappiness

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