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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.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Moron
Seemed
Personality
Fun
Freedom
Family
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When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things, Franny said. What about the dead? I asked. Where do we go?
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The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.
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I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him
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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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These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell.
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I don't do much public speaking. I did a lot of stuff for Bones, and then ended up having said yes to a lot of things that kept me on the road for a while for that, but then I pretty much stopped. I'm touring for this book, but when the tour is done, that'll be the end of it.
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Do you miss Susie? Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt. More than anyone will ever know.
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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
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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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No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In her art student camouflage she could walk the entire length of Manhattan and, if not blend in, be classified and therefore ignored.
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The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.
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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 dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.
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People grow up by living.
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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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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 stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.
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