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Ryan Moulton@moultano• 12 months ago

If you write well enough, 90 years later, people you've never met will try to make the thing inside your head real. https://t.co/mYvZqAgLBn

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Stefan Schubert@StefanFSchubert• 12 months ago

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@moultano But thy eternal summer shall not fade https://t.co/4guESUVHYb

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Matt Popovich@mpopv• 12 months ago

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@moultano the hobbits take aquatic safety more seriously than i expected

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Rusty@Rusty_Swarf• 12 months ago

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@moultano "A successful literary career is mostly postmortem."

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SAD@SADDAY_EVERYDAY• 12 months ago

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@moultano He still would have hated the movies as Christopher did

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Ryan Moulton@moultano• 12 months ago

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@SADDAY_EVERYDAY I bet he would have been more forgiving of them. For a child, your father's creation has a sacred quality to it and a canonical form. For the creator themselves, they know that they just made it up.

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Panda@VivaLaPanda• 12 months ago

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@moultano this is true and is why writing dystopian fiction is bad

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Nathan Baugh@nathanbaugh27• 12 months ago

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@moultano banger

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Dhawal Sharma@thebreakingwise• 12 months ago

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@moultano Such a beautiful thought. You know you’ve created something great when its custodianship passes from you to the world.

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Judd Baroff@JuddBaroff• 12 months ago

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@moultano And if you're really as good as Tolkien, you even end up writing a story about exactly that.

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Joshua Clemans@JoshuaClemans• 12 months ago

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@moultano https://t.co/qFHkRceMDB

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Old Billy PhD (Player Hater Degree)@realOldBilly• 12 months ago

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@moultano H Y P E R S T I T I O N

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Neil Chudleigh@neilsuperduper• 12 months ago

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@moultano so cool.

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QuixoteSword@QuixoteSword• 12 months ago

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@moultano To Tolkien, we're basically the aliens from Galaxy Quest

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