Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ... HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi... CORY DOCTOROW To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo... KATHERINE VUCICEVIC Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward. ZENA WYNN I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past...... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving? "Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro... TRACY WARD Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The universe seeks equilibriums; it prefers to disperse energy, disrupt organization, and maximize c... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE The universe has inspired so many reasons behind the reasons we know! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ... JOHN GREEN Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p... PATRICK ROTHFUSS If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promot... GERMANY KENT I'm the rose within the concrete that simulates the struggle, yet the blossom reveals defeat. THE WRITTEN FACE Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of ... MILAN KUNDERA She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of ... MARIO PUZO Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more pos... AUSTIN GROSSMAN No one will remember us, out footprints erased, our legacies wiped out, our children and their child... RICK YANCEY The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just... JACK HANDEY Great is the benefit of booklearning; for through books we are instructed and inducted into the path... THE PRIMARY CHRONICLE Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has dec... SHERRY THOMAS I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou... GREGORY MAGUIRE When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one w... USHER Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either-... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Metal rusts, music lasts forever. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe... HARUKI MURAKAMI The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee... JACK KEROUAC I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the... JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me. JACK KEROUAC You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I me... NEIL GAIMAN When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation. TED CHIANG While a picture paints a thousand words, a thousand words paints a masterpiece. WILLIE HAYNES This digital world is what you make of it in the end. CIARA In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go. MARTY RUBIN Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi... THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO A shower. Still equipped with warm, running water.” I say longingly. I refuse to let up about... TRACEY WARD In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Follow the river and you will find the sea FRENCH PROVERB The river seeking for the seaConfronts the dam and precipice,Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;You wi... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The power to stop your beneficiaries from quarreling over the content of your will when you are gone... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Many corpses will be floating in the sea, THAKSIN SHINAWATRA Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO The mystery of the written word;It bequeaths a different meaning every blessed day. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The advantage of sharing your dreams before maturity is that,it makes the universe realize that you ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We are the universe,because the universe maketh us through our beliefs. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would eve... GRANT MORRISON Inside this great Universe,you will find many pulsating characters;The rich & the poor,the positive ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if ... MARKUS ZUSAK Solange wir Kinder sind, denken wir nur selten an die Zukunft. Diese Unschuld ermöglicht es uns, un... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Then if we make it to tomorrow, we'll be here to pick up the pieces, and help him carry his load. Th... DIANNA HARDY the nurse smiled and patted my arm. “Don’t give up yet. Sometimes when we think God has written ... RACHEL VAN DYKEN We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ... ANGELA CARTER No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Let nothing human be considered sacred. Let nothing human be considered divine. MARTY RUBIN Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we... NICHOLAS SPARKS La vida era como una canción. En el comienzo, hay misterio, al final, hay una confirmación, ... NICHOLAS SPARKS شعر آخر می توانم امشب غمناک ترین سطرها را بنویسم PABLO NERUDA A joy as intense as pain NICHOLAS SPARKS Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end.... DEYTH BANGER Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can’t guarantee I’m going to be ... MEREDITH WILD Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it. MEREDITH WILD We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. FRANCINE RIVERS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end. BARRY GIBB Survival of the fittest" in the commonly used animal sense is not a theory or principle for a "time-... ALFRED KORZYBSKI In the end it doesn't matter what you do. HARRISON BIRTWISTLE In the end, crime doesn't pay. LANE GARRISON Stop a minute, Ambrose!" interrupted Master Nathaniel. "I've got a sudden silly whim that we should ... HOPE MIRRLEES Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT
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