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Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Dies
Whether
Past
Change
Hard
Things
Unless
Hold
Dead

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Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.
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My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.
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