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I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.

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Ted Dekker
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Republic of Indonesia
Theodore R. Dekker
Born
Beautiful
Think
Thinking
Hear
Woman
Desire

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The world didn’t like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn’t change the ugliness it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.
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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
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The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.
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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
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In living we die, in dying we live.
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Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater
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Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.
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It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.
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Adrenaline dulls reason panic kills it.
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But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.
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I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous' there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.
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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
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