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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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Ted Dekker
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Republic of Indonesia
Theodore R. Dekker
Real
Wrapped
Layers
Discovering
Matters
Image
Two
Around
Yous
Matter
Veneer

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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
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In living we die, in dying we live.
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Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.
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My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.
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I BELIEVE!!!!!!! - Johnny
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I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.
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She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair.
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The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it
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But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.
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The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.
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