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If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

Sidney Sheldon

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Sidney Sheldon
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 11
Died: 2007
Died: January 30
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Chicago
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If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.
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Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.
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If. A two-letter word for futility.
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Coleridge wrote, Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.
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He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.
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you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.
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