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I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Knew
Persons
Astonished
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Continually
Different
Opens
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Friendship
Things
Doors
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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in Minneapolis, I met Alison through Holly, when Holly came to Minneapolis to visit Alison.
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