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When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Away
Hilarious
Someone
Criticize
Way
Miles
Shoes
Walk
Humor
Walks
Thier
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We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.
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He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.
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But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.
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Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.
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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
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Luck never gives it lends.
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I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said Walk the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
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But like everything else, love changed.
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She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
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