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Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.
Alex Flinn
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Alex Flinn
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 23
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Alexandra Flinn
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Girl
Littles
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Every
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Princess
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Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
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A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price
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This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.
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A shoe that fits one person pinches another.
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True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage in Euphrasia until he finds you.
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In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.
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Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.
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I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.
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Everyone can use a little beauty.
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A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.
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What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.
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I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.
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