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Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
Erin Morgenstern
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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.
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Celia. he says without looking up at her, why do we wind our watch? Because everything requires energy, she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.
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Esse quam videri, Celia says. To be, rather than to seem.
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It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.
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Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was never a particularly good dancer.
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