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Jonathan McElhatten

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Jonathan’s Quotes

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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“Equations are the devil's sentences.”
― Stephen Colbert

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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: memories

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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

tags: activism

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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

tags: fear-of-unknown

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Struggling Writers — 5270 members — last activity Aug 30, 2025 11:16AM
A space for aspiring writers, indie writers, passionate writers, fun-hearted writers, struggling writers 6/2020: As of June 2020, this group ...more

Flights of Fantasy — 1220 members — last activity Dec 30, 2025 12:45AM
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, and YA/MG. We reads it. As a group, we seek to read BotM that are a little off the beaten paths. We love the Gaimans, Sande ...more

Books Are Life — 33 members — last activity Jan 02, 2017 03:54PM
Books Are Life is a book club where you can participate in discussions on the types of books you like as well as reading challenges...Who knows, some ...more