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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

“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

tags: books, reader, reading, stories, 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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“Nature has a myriad of weapons to combat human arrogance.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

tags: disease, earthquake, force-of-nature, human-arrogance, hurricane, natural-disaster, nature, storm, tsunami, volcanic-eruption

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“Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Perilous Sea

tags: story

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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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