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Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand get to know them

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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?
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If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige.
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But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on
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Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.
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You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.
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I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.
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Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not!
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Okay that’s it. Now I’m torching this. I just need to score a match.
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Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.
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I don’t think you’re aloud to be homeschooled if you don’t have a home.
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What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.
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(Actually now I’m remembering that the goodbye chow isn’t spelled that way. It’s ciao or something weird like that. It’s Italian, right? But I’m not an Italian gypsy, I’m a hungry gypsy. So spelling it chow makes total sense.)
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Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss.... He turned to me. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
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You told us over and over that you don’t think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you’d probably die before you’d think to rip pages out of one to start a fire. Am I right? Well, get over it already. Better to be warm then well-read.
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I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.
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It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.
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