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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Percent
Getting
Best
Something
World
Rush

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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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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)
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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
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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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I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.
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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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People like to run their mouths.
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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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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.
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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've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.
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