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I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!

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Cecily von Ziegesar
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 27
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You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly -Baby Carlyle
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I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone. Serana told Dan, who blushed.
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...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.
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And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl
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Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.
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I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.
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I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.
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She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they’re thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they’d just accuse you of being paranoid.
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It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.
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Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you
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I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.
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I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.
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oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.
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Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.
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Sometimes a b.f.f makes you go W.T.F but without them we'd all be a little less richer in our lives .
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You know you love me. Xoxo, GossipGirl.
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My high school wasn't a big public school it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.
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Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!
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...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.
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