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The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.
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Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.
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If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.
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Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.
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Successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.
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The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.
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Once again she decided not to decide. She preferred being compelled into her decisions.
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Clea was a woman who adored love. Hormones had always been her recreational drug of choice.
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The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.
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Their civil discussions weren't interesting, and their interesting discussions weren't civil.
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Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
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What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.
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A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.
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Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects had to be undone.
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She had learnt... that it was impossible to discuss issues civilly with a person who insisted on referring to himself as 'we'.
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One day, maybe she'd stick around to explore her own capacity for the dark, but at the moment all she wanted was a cheeseburger.
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The Sizemores are the laughing stock of wannabee genealogy. They claim Cherokee descent, but their paper trail shows them to be white.
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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
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If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
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It was an old quandary for them. He needed sex in order to feel connected to her, and she needed to feel connected to him in order to enjoy sex.
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I wrote for 12 years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Lisa Alther
Born:
July 23, 1944
(age 79)
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