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"Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently."
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"He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?"

"Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions."

"Women love with their ears, men with their eyes."

"We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language."

"Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest."

"Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends."

"People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper."

"If you do not tell me, I don't wish to know."

"The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter."

"Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Choose your words carefully and express the peacefully!"
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"The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all."

"St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry."

"There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that."

"I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings."

"Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue."

"Six books, my mother didn't want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books that I put myself inside them for safe keeping."
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