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All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Fall
Way
Things
Empires
Eventually

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Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.
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She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.
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Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
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And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.
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You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.
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Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
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