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Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Life
Challenges
Knowing
Living
Death
Cannot
Without
Thing
Defeat
Would
Victory

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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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His voice was soft and sweet as molasses but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.
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Don't make light of any man's pain.
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Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.
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Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.
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Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.
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I don't like it when I outweigh my men.
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I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.
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He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles
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Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.
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