When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
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The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.
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