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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Short
Away
Beautiful
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Life
Slipped
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
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Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
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Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.
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Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.
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