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I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Ignorance
Something
Way
Think
Thinking
Dont
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Distance

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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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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
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I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon
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But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out
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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about.
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Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.
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I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.
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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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