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...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Library
Accurately
Word
Shelf
Story
Shelves
Stories
Described
Even
Volume
Never
Unto
Possibly
Thousands

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Cars are all jammed up all along the road and a light turns red and someone honks. In every one of those cars there is a story or a hundred stories. For every light on in al of those huge city buildings there is a story. No one knows what I am about to face and no one knows my story and neither do I right then.
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I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.
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Funny the only two times we use the phrase seeing someone are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.
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Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.
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When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.
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If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.
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Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.
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But then there are the van Goghs and Hemingways and Mozarts, those who feel a hunger so deep, so far down, that greatness lies there too, nestled somewhere within it. Those who get their inner voice and direction from the cool mysterious insides of the moon, and not from the earth like the rest of us.
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Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.
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If you look up charming in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?
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To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.
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Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.
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You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.
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We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.
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Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.
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... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.
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But my apology was a thousand apologies.
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What’s that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.
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The favorite game of temperamental people is Try to Guess Why I’m Ticked Off. (Contestant number one, Why do YOU think he’s pissed off? Why, I’m not sure, Bob, but I’m going to go with ‘Because I Left the Faucet Dripping.’ BEEP. I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. The correct answer is: ‘Because You Happen to Exist.’)
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