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I think my writing has become cleaner.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
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Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.
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Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them. Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. Maybe you've got that backward, he said. Maybe it's just that I believe things you cant see.
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Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.
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I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.
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The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.
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Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.
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Men don't traipse. We... Swagger
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How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
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I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.
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i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive
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You don't love someone because they're perfect, she says. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. I don't know how to respond to that it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green.
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Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.
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This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
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The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
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Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.
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There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.
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They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.
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I think...she said finally, that all of us have got our ghosts.
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Kid says to me, You play baseball? What position? Left out? and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.
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