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Plot, in its purest sense is a kind of clockwork mechanism that arranges pieces of a story together to cause it to frequently arrive at an overly contrived solution, where storytelling is more akin to creating a feeling like real life, even
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“He doesn’t care that the mood was different to begin with because he knows that nothing important ever happens unless he is there to witness it.”
― Chouette
― Chouette
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― A Hat Full of Sky
― A Hat Full of Sky
“For at the very moment you have Now, it flees. It is gone. It is, on the instant, Then. Surely.”
― Treacle Walker
― Treacle Walker
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
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