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Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.

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Louise Penny
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 1
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
City of Toronto
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Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.
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I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.
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Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.
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To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.
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Things are strongest where they're broken.
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Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.
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How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.
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Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.
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No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.
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Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?
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