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How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for?

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
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Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.
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Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who is detached from you. They just listen to what you tell them and you get to form the way that they see you, whereas everyone else in your life already thinks they know what you're dealing with or what you're going through. That's my recommendation for actual anxiety.
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Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.
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From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now
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I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not
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