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Masks of Nyarlathotep (Dark Adventure Radio Theatre)

by Larry DiTillio

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Aug 26, 2020 01:56PM

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Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer

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Different Seasons

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: growth, strength, struggle, triumph

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“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”
― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

tags: confidence, loneliness, shyness

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“Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: competition, egotism, men, struggle

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“Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of
iron or of gold.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Vikings of Helgeland

tags: captivity, prison

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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

tags: inspirational, life

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