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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
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St Paul
Minnesota
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Lying
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Moments
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Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all...You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions of love you've ever had. A certain richness happens only later in life. I guess its' a kind of mellowing. p 80 talking about marriage and husbands
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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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Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.
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We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
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I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.
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The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.
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But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.
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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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My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.
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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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It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.
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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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The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.
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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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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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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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