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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Listening
Others
Never
Weighing
Input
Shy
Seriously

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But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death — the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human — feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.
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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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She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.
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You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
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I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.
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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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I wish you all a long and happy life
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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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Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before
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How to Commit the Perfect Murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.
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I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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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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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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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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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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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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People grow up by living.
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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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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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