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“Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.”

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Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

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A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.

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Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

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