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Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
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Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
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Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.
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I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.
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Besides I'm a sucker for a pair of pretty eyes.
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But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a lot of different women. Which always seems to imply that I am no different from all the rest. Not flattering.
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A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.
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I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if the pregnancy continues, or a rape victim, or even a teenager who made a mistake. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.
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When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.
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Never look back something is always gaining on you.
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Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.
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There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.
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That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.
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We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.
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Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?
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Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto
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He's not going to shoot us in the back by accident, is he? Deputy Coltrain asked. I smiled, not sweetly. He promised not to.
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If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.
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Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed.
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The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor.
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Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.
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The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.
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