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I love apples. I actually do eat an apple a day.

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When the price of oil goes up, the entire Texas economy takes a deep breath. Millionaires blossom like rain lilies. News races through the countryside that the money train is pulling into the station. Hop on board!

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A donkey is a very useful beast of burden.

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I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

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To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.

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When I was in the ninth grade, I had a teacher in Dallas, Texas, named Elizabeth Enlow in English class. Every Friday, we had to write a little essay, and you had to incorporate three particular words into the story. That was the sole direction. And to me, this was so much fun.

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From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.

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There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

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If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

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I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 2nd, 1947

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