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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Even
Brokenness
Transform
Narrative
Beauty
Language
Experience
Beautiful
Thought

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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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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.
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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
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I left my mark on that man.
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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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Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: She’s never coming home. A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.
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I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.
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The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her she had noted in her journal: booze affects material as it does people.
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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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I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.
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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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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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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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Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
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I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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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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