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Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
Sometimes
Unmasked
Serendipity
Intention

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I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.
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As a writer, you should have a sticky soul the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.
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You don't get everything all at once. You wait.
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This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.
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It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.
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I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.
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Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.
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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
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There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.
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But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.
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You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.
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Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.
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I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.
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One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life.
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I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.
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As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.
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It is never about how good your voice is it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.
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I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.
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