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Being the survivor stinks.

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Sara Gruen
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
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Novelist
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Survivor
Stinks
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Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.
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Must protect my little pockets of happiness.
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...if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.
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Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.
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I look after those who look after me. He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, I also look after those who don't. - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)
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I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
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When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.
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But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs, and the next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. And now, here I am. In my nineties and alone.
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Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
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It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here
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I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.
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I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
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He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. He's ill, Jacob. I say nothing. He's a paragon schnitzophonic. He's what?! Paragon schnitzophonic, repeats Uncle Al. You mean paranoid schizophrenic? Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter.
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I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my three kids in less than five minutes.
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With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
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I roll onto my side and stare out the venetian blinds at the blue sky beyond. After a few minutes I'm lulled into a sort of peace. The sky, the sky--same as it always was.
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I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.
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Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?
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