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People grow up by living.

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
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He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.
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As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
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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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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.
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If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.
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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.
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One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.
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My name is Salmon, like the fish first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.
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She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.
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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.
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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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When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.
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I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand
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Hold still, my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.
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