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A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

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Sidney Sheldon
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 11
Died: 2007
Died: January 30
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Sidney Schechtel
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Paper
Pieces
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you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.
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I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.
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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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If. A two-letter word for futility.
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