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Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

Adolescence Any Arrows Book
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We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

Accepted Attacked Color Expected
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It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, 'Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

Auditorium Blind Classroom Date
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I'm a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.

Camera Help Just Moron
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I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.

Complaining Cranky Depressed Everybody
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My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.

Afraid Am Dad Dreaded
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Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.

Cup Favorite Heaven Hot
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I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world.

Broke Business Cities Favorite
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I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Doing Grew I Write Long
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Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.

Child Favorite Feels Impossible
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I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

Because Could Counted Creepy
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I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

Actually Big Book Charlotte
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My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.

Father Hard Joke Just
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We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?

Accepting Anger As Certain
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When God loves you, He places the love of you in the hearts of the people whose love is worth having.

God Love Place Heart
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Love the people you think you’d want to be with in the Hereafter.
Love People Think Want
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Sometimes you don’t realize how special something is until you lose it. That’s how I feel about Ramadan every year.

Realise Special Lose Feel
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If you don’t love your brother enough to respectfully voice your concerns about him directly to him, then at least have enough respect to not tear him up behind his back.

Love Brother Respect Concern
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Prayer is not the only time of day that you should be talking to God.

Prayer Time Day Talk
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When people wear you out, spend time in isolation with God, and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.

People Isolation God Time
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Positive thinking isn’t ignoring life’s problems, it’s understanding that God can make a way out for you if you sincerely try.

Positive Think Ignore Problem
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When you treat people well, those same people might not treat you the same way. But if you pay attention, you’ll notice that God has sent other people who treat you even better.

Treat People Attention God
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Sometimes you meet people with very little knowledge, very humble jobs, and in no leadership role but they put you to shame with their good character and you can’t help but wonder if it’s that special connection that they have with God that causes them to tread the earth so lightly.

Knowledge Humble Leadership Character
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Wake up knowing that God is greater than any obstacle you may face today.
Wake God Great Obstacle
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If you complain that God is testing you too much, you’re failing the test.

Complain Test Fail God
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Kind words cost you nothing but are sometimes worth more than a million dollars.
Kind Cost Worth Million
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If they don’t fulfill their obligations to the Creator what assures you they will fulfill their obligations to you?

Obligation Creator Assure Promise
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God will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you He plans in your favor.

Dissapoint Sincere Call Think
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Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others.

Forget Favour People Others
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Sometimes God allows you to taste the bitterness of this world so that you could fully appreciate the sweetness of faith.

God Taste Bitter World
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Don’t question God’s mercy. Just ask for it and you’ll find it.

Question Mercy God Ask
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When you forget that you need God, He puts you in a situation that causes you to call upon Him, and that’s for your own good.

Forget God Need Situation
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Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are.

Wish People Realise Gift
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Let’s practice what we learn, and then preach what we practice. Don’t jump from learning straight to preaching.

Practice Learn Preach Jump
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Don’t make an excuse for your laziness by calling it faith in God.

Excuse Lazy Call God
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God has guaranteed His love for those who love each other for His sake.

God Guarantee Love Other
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In trusting God, remember that what’s best for you might be what’s most painful.

Trust God Remember Best
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What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.

See People Reflection Good
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Don’t risk an eternity of joy in Paradise for a moment of fleeting pleasure.
Risk Eternity Joy Paradise
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Perfection is not attainable but excellence is.

Perfect Attain Excellent Life
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Humility is the most beautiful expression of character, while pride is the most repulsive.

Humility Beautiful Expression Character
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The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Here Past Pleasant Better
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

Swearing Invented Fighting Compromise
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If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
Christain Science Good Nurse
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The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.

World Worse Usual Turning
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The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

People Wise First Living
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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

Follow Iliction Return Flag
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.

People Musical Comedy English
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Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

Deeper Grow Happen How
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I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Breakfast French Ordered Restaurant
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