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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.
Louise Penny
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Louise Penny
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 1
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City of Toronto
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Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.
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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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Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.
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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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