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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Anyone Cultivate Friend Knew Slattern World Worth
I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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