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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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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
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Measured
Hold
Lying
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Moments
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Everything
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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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The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.
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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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My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.
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I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.
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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard that when elephants are attacked they often run, not away, but toward each other. Perhaps it is because they are a matriarchal society.
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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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There is incredible value in being of service to others.
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Don't let your habits become handcuffs
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For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.
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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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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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It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.
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Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
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The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.
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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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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
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I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.
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Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without them? I wonder if we aren't all a little surprised at the moment of crossover, if we don't look back over our shoulders saying, Now hold on.
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You don't get everything all at once. You wait.
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