Gayle Forman
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AMBER SMITH JEAN-LUC GODARD BEN ELTON TOM ROBBINS GEORGE MACDONALD ANDY SERKIS HARVEY PEKAR I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What i... CAROLINE LEAVITT I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a publi... K. A. APPLEGATE LJUPKA CVETANOVA JUDITH VIORST Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children... HENNING MANKELL I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's... EDIE FALCO JOHN LEGEND What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA GWENDOLYN BROOKS JOSEPH CONRAD DAVID BENIOFF CRAIG GROESCHEL ZAMAN ALI I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything e... CAROLINE THOMPSON I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan but I guess it's got me think... 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Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
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To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
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To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. 
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... 
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Not everyone has the time to be normal. 
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We are far from perfect but willing to be different. 
Human is what he decides to be. 
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[Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuis... 
Better your room than your company. 
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In many ways we were what Billy and Ruth Graham called 'happily incompatible'. 