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Bring the House Down

by Charlotte Runcie (Goodreads Author)

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The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness

by Hannah Murray

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The Others

by Sheena Kalayil

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Where Nightmares Come From by Eugene Johnson

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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 ...more

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“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
― Henry Miller

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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

tags: inspirational, journey, quest, seekers, travel

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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

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