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You owe me nothing, but I want everything.

Anne Fortier

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Anne Fortier
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Novelist
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And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.
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But he is an Italian, was Umberto's sensible reply. He doesn't care if you break some law a little bit, as long as you wear beautiful shoes. Are you wearing beautiful shoes? Are you wearing the shoes I gave you?...principessa? I looked down at my flip-flops. I guess I'm toast.
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For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki shorts and golf shirts, to Umberto, were the garments of men who have no virtues left, not even shame.
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You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.
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Peppo! I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. I really don't want to be arrested, okay? Don't worry! Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. I go too fast for police!
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Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.
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I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.
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By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.
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Only weak men want women to be weak.
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I am sorry I didn’t tell you the truth before. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to. You kept asking about Romeo and what he was really like. I was hoping that”—he smiled wistfully—“you would recognize me.
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In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
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Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
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If you let go of me now,” I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?
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A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.
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Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable---those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?
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Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.
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.... death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!
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I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.
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When the old men fight, the young people die.
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...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.
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