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A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.
Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.
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So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?
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I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
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Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning? A: Unfertilized
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Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.
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I wonder if you've got a minute. I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.
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I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.
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