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People grow up by living.

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Living
People
Grow
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun it cannot be contained.
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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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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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How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?
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Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.
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Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
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I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.
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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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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'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
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Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.
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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 left my mark on that man.
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I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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Stones and bones snow and frost seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that’s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?
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