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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    William Shakespeare
    “By the pricking of my thumbs,
    Something wicked this way comes.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: foreshadowing, macbeth
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: insanity
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
    tags: bounds, enslavement, error, false-belief, freedom, freedom-of-thought, imprisonment
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: magic
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Remember to live.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Sunny
    “Yes, monsters all of us, I thought. And so horribly fragile.”
    ― Sunny, Mona Lisa Awakening
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    Gary Paulsen
    “I read like a wolf eats.
    I read myself to sleep every night.”
    ― Gary Paulsen
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    “We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.”
    ― Robert Wilensky
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  • #12
    “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: writing
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Travis Luedke
    “She exuded sexuality almost tangible, like ink obscuring the waters around the octopus before it strikes.”
    ― Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Las Vegas
    tags: attraction, huntress, michelle, vampire
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    Travis Luedke
    “A strikingly beautiful shit-storm of trouble––Ana attracted trouble like no one else.”
    ― Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Las Vegas
    tags: anastasia, beautiful-people, menage-romance
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    Travis Luedke
    “They were two people staring at each other knowingly, communicating psychically amidst an ocean of deaf, dumb and blind meatsacks.”
    ― Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Las Vegas
    tags: intuition, psychic, telepathy
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    Travis Luedke
    “She began to realize some decisions cannot be undone no matter how hard you try.”
    ― Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Las Vegas
    tags: addiction, anastasia, venom
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    Travis Luedke
    “He knew that if Michelle entered into the walls of the Vatican, she’d corrupt every single clergyman within, causing them to forsake their vows in trade for a few moments with her. With one glance men would happily follow her to the bowels of hell and swim across the lake of fire to get to her.”
    ― Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Las Vegas
    tags: attraction, michelle, seduction, sensuality
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    Travis Luedke
    “Ana was a perpetual victim in a never-ending search for a victimizer.”
    ― Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Las Vegas
    tags: abuse, anastasia, masochism, sadism, victim
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: college, semicolons, writing
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    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: greatness
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    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: poetry
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    Travis Luedke
    “The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.”
    ― Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Paris
    tags: desperation, escape, evacuation, flee, panic, paris, war, wwii
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    Travis Luedke
    “The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.”
    ― Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Paris
    tags: condemnation, conflict, denial, discovery, disregard, disremember, paris
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    Travis Luedke
    “The waters of her emotions ran deep, and he was only privy to the splashes on the surface.”
    ― Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Paris
    tags: complexity-of-thought, hiding-our-inner-desires
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    Travis Luedke
    “I am not an exhibitionist anymore. I don't need to show of my beautiful body to anyone. I'm sexy and I know it, and I don't give a shit if anyone else knows it.  ”
    ― Travis Luedke, Blood Slave
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    Dark Jar Tin Zoo
    “To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
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    ― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
    tags: broken, deceit, deception, denial, deny, funny, honest, honesty, humor, illogical, illusion, lie, lie-detector, lies, life, love, machine, relationships, suspicion, women, word-junkies
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    Travis Luedke
    “Her loving hands, soft lips, and perfumed scents were an addiction for which he had no cure.”
    ― Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Paris
    tags: addiction, love, lovers, michelle, stockholm-syndrome
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    Travis Luedke
    “You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.”
    ― Travis Luedke
    tags: compulsion, enslaved, enslavement, michelle, submission, vampire-slave, vampires
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    Travis Luedke
    “The world you once knew is no more for you.”
    ― Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: New York
    tags: acceptance, change, control, domination, nightlife, submission, vampire
    3 likes



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