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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Announcements
Arrives
Circus
Warning
Yesterday
Simply
Without
Precede

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People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to
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Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.
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Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
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I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.
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I dont think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.
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