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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Gamble
Find
Life

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Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.
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A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.
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Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs
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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?
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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? -346
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The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.
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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.
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Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.
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I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.
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I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?
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