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... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

Shannon Hale

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Opiates
Fantasy
Practice
Women
Real
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If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.
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... and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.
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...all things speak, in their way, don't they?
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