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In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

Anne Fortier

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Anne Fortier
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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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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She had died peacefully, in her sleep, after an evening of listening to all of her favorite Fred Astaire songs, one crackling record after another. Once the last chord of the last piece had died out, she had stood up and opened the French doors to the garden outside, perhaps waiting to breathe in the honeysuckle one more time.
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I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.
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Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.
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Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry I was not so sure about the reason part.
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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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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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...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.
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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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I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.
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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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Romeo was cute …” “Cute?” Alessandro rolled his eyes. “What kind of man is cute?” “… and an excellent dancer …” “Romeo had feet of lead! He said so himself!” “… but most importantly,” I concluded, “he had nice hands!
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When the old men fight, the young people die.
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There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.
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Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.
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We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.
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