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Stephen Evans

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Born
in Washington DC, The United States
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Fiction, Memoir, Children's

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February 2008


Stephen Evans is a playwright and the author The Marriage of True Minds (a novel) and A Transcendental Journey (which is not a novel).

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Average rating: 3.84 · 164 ratings · 38 reviews · 8 distinct works
The Marriage of True Minds
3.78 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions
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The Island of Always
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A Transcendental Journey
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The Marriage Gift
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Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750 and was buried in an unmarked grave in the hospital cemetery in Leipzig. It took nearly 200 years for his music to be heard and celebrated again.

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Stephen’s Quotes

George Bernard Shaw
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
tags: books, children
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions,—the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasant thought and feeling.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
tags: happiness
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“I keep imagining that someone will read what I write, if I keep imagining.”
― Stephen Evans, The Laughing String: Thoughts on Writing
tags: imagination, writing-life
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