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By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
Writer
Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
Submitting
Publication
Collecting
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Rejection
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who is the love of my life? Maybe I don't have one. Maybe it's not love at all. But if it's not love, then what is it? I wish I knew.
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If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.
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Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.
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Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.
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He didn't look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting.
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His parting shot to me had been, I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am. What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.
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Besides I'm a sucker for a pair of pretty eyes.
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If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.
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No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.
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You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.
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All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.
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You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.
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Sex is like crying, it does look pretty if you really do it
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Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.
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Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.
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You're up to something, I said. He turned, eyes wide, long fingers pressed to his heart. Moi? Yeah, you.
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