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Each of us has a private Austen.

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Karen Joy Fowler
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 7
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Science Fiction Writer
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Indiana
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I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?
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The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't
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There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.
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Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.
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Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.
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I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.
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Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.
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You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.
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I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.
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But no one is easier to delude than a parent they see only what they wish to see.
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When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
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Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
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We all have a sense of level. It may not be based on class exactly anymore, but we still have a sense of what we're entitled to. People pick partners who are nearly their equal in looks. The pretty marry the pretty, the ugly the ugly. To the detriment of the breed.
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I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.
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I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.
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Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.
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Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.
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In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.
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The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.
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You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings? Oh my Lord, yes. Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.
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