People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Nadine Gordimer
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  3. I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with. - Fannie Flagg

  4. That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable. - Deb Caletti

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  1. The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

  2. Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

  3. What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling...

  4. Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

  5. Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

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