"The past stays on you the way powdered……" — Erin Morgenstern
"The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now."
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183 Quotes by Erin Morgenstern
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Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of…
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I have absurdly vivid dreams.
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I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with…
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And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll…
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Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting.
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I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.
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I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to…
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
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— Michelle Bachelet
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a…
— David Bailey
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name…
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the…
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Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also…
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
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