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What you want can be yours. But you must first know what it is you want.

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
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Texas
United States
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I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.
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That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.
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She smiled as sweetly as a show poster for the glorified, all-American Ziegfeld girl just before dumping her second cigarette into Wally’s fresh cup of coffee.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged.
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- 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.' - 'Ready for what?' - He smiles big. 'Exactly.
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Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.
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People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.
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Women who have power are always feared.
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Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.
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Does my new feminism make me look fat?
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I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s amazing the sorts of things you’ll make yourself believe.
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Live life as if today is your last day living. :-)
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I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.
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But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.
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We're all damaged somehow.-A Great and Terrible Beauty
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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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She's no beauty, mate
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...I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot.
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They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?
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How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.
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