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money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Port Huron
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My stories are character driven.
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I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.
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I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.
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I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.
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People like to run their mouths.
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.
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