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It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesnt happen very often.

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Amy Bloom
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 18
Film Producer
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Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Social Worker
Writer
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Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.
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My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
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Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.
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I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.
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The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
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Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
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To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.
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Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more hope, determination, a sense of humor, and needs that are best met by being in a pair.
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There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
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Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
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Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.
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I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.
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Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.
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Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
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The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.
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Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...
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