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If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have...more

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She might be a natural-born cynic, but she knew the right word when she heard it.

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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

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It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

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He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.

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Nothingwould beeasier withoutyou,because youare everything,all of it-sprinkles, quarks, giantdonuts, eggs sunny-side up-youare the ever-expandingunive...more

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She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to vacuum up that squi

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She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble