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Why are some things easier to write than say?

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Write
Writing
Things
Easier

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It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
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I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.
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We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
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It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
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Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
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Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.
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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
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