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You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 11
Novelist
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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I love you, Meg. I want to marry you. I want to sleep with you every night, make love with you, have kids. I want to fight together and work together and—just be together. Now are you going to keep standing there, staring at me, or could you put me out of my misery and say you still love me, at least a little?
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Why don't I just hand you my panties and be done with it.
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Be the best at what you're good at
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Mummy’s coming home late tonight. It’ll be just we guys, so we can get drunk and watch porn.
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I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.
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Life sure is easier when you're rich. And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part. How could I? she retorted. It's the only thing we have in common.
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Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.
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Here’s the life lesson I’ve learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they’ve forgotten the hero.
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[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.
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Get inside before I spank you in public. There it was again, another of his maddening threats. Did that mean he wouldn't spank her if she did as he said or that he simply planned to spank her in private? She was still mulling over the whole unpleasant concept when he started the truck.
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If you think I'm going to cry all over your chest because you don't feel the same way, you're wrong. I don't beg for anybody's love.
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Writing is hard for everybody except fools.
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I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I've written one paragraph, and I've been at the computer for four hours.
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