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Quotes by Writer
"Because I've gotten older, I worry that there will be a steep decline in my talent, but I promise not to let the same thing happen to my passion for writing."
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"A fleeting second on someone's news feed, No dearth of meanings for those who read, Not my stories but 'tis what I think, I say I don't write poems, I just write dreams."
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"And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about."
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"I wanted to go to him to save me, but he was the one who broke me this time."
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"To have attracted readers is the most magical part of my writing life. I was not expecting you to show up when I wrote my first books. It took me by surprise. It filled me with gratitude. It still does."
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"I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose."
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"Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them."
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"I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I'm a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage."
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"It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is."
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"He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession."
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"Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own."
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"In matters of good-lookingness, we writers are the ugliest of the bunch, and normally our appearance is akin to that of someone investigating a crime scene; though the women in American writing keep producing world-class beauty in droves, and there are many breathtaking writers among them."
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"If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home."
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"The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade is being scraped along the spine. Our legs won't function, our hands are trembling and our bodies are like thin membranes stretched over barely repressed madness, holding in what would otherwise be an unrestrained outburst of endless scream.s. We have no flesh, no muscle now."
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"Each and every day, I miss you baby, please don't go away. I need you lady, you're the sunshine of my lonely life, in this life I know, it's hard to find you, oh don't let me go, I'll die without you, each and every night I'm crying to be with you."
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"LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I'm recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of ' it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one ' but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me."
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"I could have loved him with everything I had but he wasn't prepared for the depth i provided ~ had I been a woman of weakness I would have stayed, but he lost the chance when he said I wasn't enough that day."
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"Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken."
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"The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are."
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"The tears creat havoc which stays on the eyelid ."
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"Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings, or anybody at all, destroy your confidence or affect your growth as a blooming flower. It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone."
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"We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game."
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"But part of surviving is being able to move on."
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"I've got a theory, it could be bunnies...I've got a theor-Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposesThey've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.And what's with all the carrots-?What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies!...or maybe midgets..."
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"I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational."
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"Your authenticity is the gateway to all good things."
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"She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short."
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"After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper."
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"The only group large enough to handle, ' the world's biggest, 'problems is the network of millions of local churches around the world. We have the widest distribution, largest group of volunteers, local credibility, the promises of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the inevitability of history."
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"I will be me, when world aberrantlywill feel, my gravity!I will turn into my, when their shrill crywill stop asking why!(Poem:Because you so wanna meet me, Book: Ginger and Honey)"
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"I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world."
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"He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood."
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"If, as a culture, we don't bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don't - if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live - well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease.We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help."
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