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Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Puppets
Followers
Religion

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Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
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I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?
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Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.
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No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.
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Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
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In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.
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With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.
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I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.
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The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.
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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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Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.
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As the old saying goes, sometimes loving someone means letting them go.
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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.
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you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD
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Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.
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Real love shouldn't be disposable.
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I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.
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