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• The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

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• Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

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• The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

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• Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

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• I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

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• Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

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• I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

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• It is too difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it.

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• Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.

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• The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers.

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• People see what they want to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

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• This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

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• I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

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• Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

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• Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.

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• You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them.

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• We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

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• I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

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• I don’t think there’s anything wrong being a dreamer.

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• Timing is a sensitive thing.

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Erin Morgenstern (31)

Birth:	8th July, 1978
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Novelist

About

Erin Morgenstern was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts, USA. She is an American multimedia artist and the author of a successful fantasy novel, The Night Circus. The Night Circus won an Alex Award from the American Library Association, the 2012 Locus Award for Best First Novel, and spent seven weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. She studied theater and studio art at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, graduating in 2000. In addition to writing, she paints, mostly in acrylics, including the Phantomwise tarot deck.

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