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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
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being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.
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It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.
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Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
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You should hit him in the face with frying pans more often, Said Rhys he seems to like it
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Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.
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Never look back something is always gaining on you.
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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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I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.
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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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Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.
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If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.
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I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.
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Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.
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Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.
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I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.
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Different isn't evil, it's just different.
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The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor.
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Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
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We're making a list. And checking it twice. Edward shook his head.
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