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You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
People
Shove
Door
Doors
Doubt
Open
Voice
Right
Mean

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We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.
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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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If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.
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You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. I don't why stories worked that way, but they did.
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It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.
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...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.
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I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat
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I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.
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The hurt affects your ability to go forward.
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So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.
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Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.
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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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