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James Patterson Quotes: If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.
         

If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.


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Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.



Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.



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A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night



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Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.



Oh great. Yoda captured us.

Oh great. Yoda captured us.



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Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)




At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.



I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.



I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.





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Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?



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To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.



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Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.



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I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.



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Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.



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I went through a lifestyle change when I dropped 40 pounds. Taking care of my diet was the first thing I did.



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We can choose our friends, but we can't choose our neighbors.



My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.

My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.



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With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.




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