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“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

-Frank Herbert, Dune
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“It doesn’t matter what you do…so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away.”

-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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“Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.”

-Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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“How puzzling all these changes are! I’m never sure what I’m going to be, from one minute to another.”

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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“I could tell you my adventures – beginning from this morning… but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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“We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow.”

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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“And so it goes…”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”

-Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.”

-Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”

-Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
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