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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Chances
Dreams
Taking
Chance
Means
Dream
Mean
Crank
Wasting

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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
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One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
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I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.
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It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.
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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.
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