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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Aint
Behinds
Behind
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Happiness
Certain
Zeroes

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I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.
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We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.
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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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My stories are character driven.
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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!
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
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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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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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I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
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I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.
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