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• The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

  Anatole Broyard

  Stories, Being Human, Ends

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• I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Father, Interesting, Might

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Fall, Poetry Is, Species

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• My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

  Jane Horrocks

  Mom, Baby, Memories

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• Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Pain, Writing, Guy

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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• Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Decision, Feelings, Permanent

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• My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Greatest Fear, Discipleship

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• I Am Really Gifted To Play Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.

  Michael Hussey

  Play, Ms Dhoni, Gifted

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  I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

  Douglas Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Hilarious

  "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Dirk Gently, Book 3)". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.

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• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Stupid

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Funny, Birthday

  Attributed in Bennett Cerf, The Life of the Party (1956)

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• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Size, Bigs, Determine

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• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Clever, Hipster

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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• When I die, the last thing I want to see is the six that Dhoni hit in the 2011 World Cup final.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Dhoni, Finals, World

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• Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Study, Window

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• An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.

  Charlton Heston

  Kindness, Inspiration, Kind

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• Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Motivational, I Hate You

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• Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because you seek the thrill of flight, and on the up- kick, you lose your seat. Injury is likely. But if you worry about falling down, and never chance "up," the sky will remain forever out of reach.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Couple, Disappointment, Fall

  Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

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• Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

  Donald Miller

  Stories, Unbearable, Conflict

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• You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Life, Beautiful, Children

  Twitter post from Apr 21, 2016

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• I’m sorry ma’am,” I said. Really, I had no idea what else to say. I’d spent the weekend caught up in an epic battle to save humanity, and now… jean shorts?

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Weekend, Ideas

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.27, Penguin

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• Sorry, Ms. Terwilliger. I'm flattered that you think I'm such an upstanding person, but I'm already caught up in one epic battle of good versus evil. I don't need another.

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Thinking, Evil

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.93, Penguin

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• after an epic search, I finally found something neither green nor fuzzy. It was a hot sausage link. I named it Peter, mostly because it seemed like the right thing to do. As soon as my java was piping hot I popped him into the microwave. hopefully the radioactive environment would sterilize Peter. No need to have little Peters running around, wreaking havoc.

  Darynda Jones

  Running, Hot, Needs

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.8, St. Martin's Press

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• The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

  Edward Gibbon

  Math, Age, May

  Edward Gibbon (1862). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.401

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