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Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
Katherine Applegate
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Katherine Applegate
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 9
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Ann Arbor
Michigan
Katherine Alice Applegate
L. E. Blair
Katherine Kendall
Beth Kincaid
A. R. Plumb
Pat Pollari
K. A. Applegate
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My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.
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Pain is life. Life is pain.
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Especially when you're faced with hard times, you need to remember that life is either tragedy or comedy. For me, that's what the magic is. Life has remarkable, surprising moments that get you through the hard times.
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Tobias asked. Weird? Weird? Marco crowed. The talking bird wants to know if getting information on the location of an alien from a whale, that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into dolphins . . . You're suggesting that's weird?
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It's OAT-freaking-MEAL!
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Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.
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