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Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Present
Past
Live
Sometimes
Think
Thinking
Closely

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My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
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He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.
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