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Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
Dreams
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Remember

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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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I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.
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No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.
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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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You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.
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You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.
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There is incredible value in being of service to others.
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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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Don't let your habits become handcuffs
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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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There are some things you never say good-bye to
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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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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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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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Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
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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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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 hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.
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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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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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