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Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia.
Libba Bray
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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
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Texas
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I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.
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So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.
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The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.
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Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.
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My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.
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On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas, hold one another up, determined to make their mark, to bite back at the dreams sold to them in newspaper advertisements and on the radio. They have sores on their feet but stars in their eyes.
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Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.
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I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.
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Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing. He touches his tender jaw. And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing.
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We create the illusions we need to go on.
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There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.
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- 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.' - 'Ready for what?' - He smiles big. 'Exactly.
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All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.
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Will you punish me forever?
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People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,” Will said. “There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.
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We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.
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The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.
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Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.
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We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.
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