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“As big as the world is, Nassun is beginning to realize it's also really small. The same stories, cycling around and around. The same endings, again and again. The same mistakes eternally repeated.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

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“I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill?”
― Stephen King, The Stand

tags: aphorism, potter, stephen-king, the-stand

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“When the world is hard, love must be harder still.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

tags: life, love

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“Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he is able burrow beneath the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.”
― Tommy Douglas