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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.
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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
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