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I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

Any Base Character Either
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Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

Actually Characters Develop Family
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The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

Any Aspect Character Important
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

About Away Cloudy Day
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
Impressions Imprint Lasting Leave
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

Beginning Chaotic Disturbing Emerge
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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Away Editors Flattery Giving
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

Absolute Acquired Artist Been
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It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

Curtains Deep Dim Doors
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

Bright Chess Clever Course
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

Everything Expect Her Little
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The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

Abundance Been Depths Flame
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
Every Happy Passed Storm
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When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.

Came Died Disease Doctors
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

Abreast Bit Born Enables
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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

Earth Energy Greater Growing
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In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

Breath Could Crushing Feel
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

Anyone Anyone Else Branches Breathe
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

After Among Because Bought
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Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car

Anyone Sitting Church Christian
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

Cats Teach us Nature Purpose
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Book Gift Open Again
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

Nothing Do Child Wasted
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Believe Looking reality Eye
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When in doubt, look intelligent.

When In doubt Look intelligent
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Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Thank you Good life Forgive us
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You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

Get old Realize No answers
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One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

Read books Privilege Life
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A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Young writer Allusive Ethereal Reflective
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

God Write Comedy Bad actors
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Shallow life Person Few scars
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Some luck Wanted Once you
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Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.
Life unjust Beautiful Be brave Hold
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Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

Intelligence Allows you Get stuck
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Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.

Sex Good Fresh Sweet corn
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I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

Seen Truth Sense
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Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
Be well Good work In touch
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Nice things Funerals Sad Miss mine
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It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.

Sin Believe Evil Mistake
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Time Elephantine vanity Look far Campfires
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Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk.
Quiet place Heart Rainbow Possibility
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If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

Live today Last Rocket Fire
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We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
Come from People Believe Life
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When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

Wage war Public school Attacking Community together
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose
Highlight Childhood Brother laugh Food
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Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

Beauty Worth thinking Mind Haircut
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

Sometimes Reality Eye
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It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

Important Survival Children Own experiences
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Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.

Some people Love Fellow man Light anesthetic
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I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book.

Afraid Deceased Gotten engrossed Book
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