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If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.
Catherine Ryan Hyde / Novelist
Pay
Back
Forward
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Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.
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Easy
Hard
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Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.
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Beautiful
Scar
World
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There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.
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Kindness
Acts Of Kindness
Way
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We should all be much more careful with each other`s hearts.
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Careful
Heart
Should
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If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.
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Back Together
Ifs
Together
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I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.
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Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.
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Young Adult
Author
Missed
Sometime
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I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '91.
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Finishing
January
Publishing
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Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.
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Grownups
Work Will Talk
Tendency
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A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.
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Kissing
Littles
Thinking
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The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.
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Air
Heaven
Real
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The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people who have their acts together, either.
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Together World People
Acts
All People
Straight People
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I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words
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Air
Filling Up
Real
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Love always looks nice. I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy it when they see it. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really want to know them.
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Looks
Nice
Want
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If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?
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Men
Sex
Trying
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As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.
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Statements
Authors
Public Statements
Reactive
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I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.
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Handful
Short Stories
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Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.
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Needs
Ordinary
World
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I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.
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Giving Up
Pay It Forward
People
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One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer than with a traditional publisher because these titles are not coming off of shelves.
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Marketing
Nice Things
Shelves
Titles
Window
Publisher
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I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.
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Ends
Stones
Today
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A genuine act of kindness makes me feel like I really am where you cut underneath anything external, and you become what a human being can really be. It’s like coming home when you give kindness. Kindness changes us, as human beings.
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Kindness
Home
Cutting
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... even though it was beautiful and comfortable, and even though it was the world, it was also a little bit boring. No, wait. Maybe boring isn’t the right word. What’s the word I’m wanting here? Lonely. That’s it. It was a little bit lonely.
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Beautiful
Lonely
Waiting
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I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.
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Inspirational
Running
Creative
Creative Process
Pages
I Am Day People
Writer
Basically
Breath
Disciplined
No Control
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Those who write may think they know their target market. They may even feel they can shape the work to fit it. If this is true of you, you have more control over your creative process than I do. Even so, I humbly submit that you try letting your writing shape your target market instead and see what happens.
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Creative Process
Submit
Target
Work Your Process
Humbly
Letting
Market
Shape
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I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.
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Kids
Hurt
Past
Stupid
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When I write, my goal is to delve deeply enough into the human experience to find a sort of universality. Once you dig down underneath surface differences, we are all human beings. And all human beings want essentially the same things at our core. We want to love and be loved. We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe.
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Differences
Human Experience
Loved Ones
Universality
Same Things
Underneath
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Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)
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Self
Thinking
Views
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