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And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.

Kathryn Stockett

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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Remember
Make
Chasing
Fun
Friends
Lying
Dream

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She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.
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I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didnt have any phone service and we didnt have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.
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This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.
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...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.
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Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.
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it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.
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Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot.
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