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To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Art
Soul
Great
Make
Things
Expose
Safely
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Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.
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Don't make light of any man's pain.
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