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And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Endings
Otherwise
Happy
Really
Never

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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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Misdirection is one of my strengths.
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The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.
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Esse quam videri, Celia says. To be, rather than to seem.
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I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.
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I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn't you want to keep it?
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Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.
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Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
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Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.
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I wished for her,” he says.
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Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?
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Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
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Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.
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