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When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual
Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
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Wilmington
Delaware
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Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
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Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
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Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
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Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.
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Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
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The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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