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People grow up by living.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
People
Grow
Grows
Living

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I left my mark on that man.
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As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.
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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
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At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.
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She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.
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The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?
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I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
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I wish you all a long and happy life
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He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway
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I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.
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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
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I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
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I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.
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I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure, she said, I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.
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I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.
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All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.
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If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
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