United States writer (born in 1942)

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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
I know some good marriages -- marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

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