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Famous Quotes By Lois Duncan

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Aloud she said why not you ray you were involed in this as much as the resst of uswhy is it that bud never tried to do anything to you ?his armed tighted around her.'he knew the worst thing for me was a world without you — Lois Duncan

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It's only by facing things that you ever put them behind you.
-Mrs. McConnell to Susan — Lois Duncan

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Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader likes and relates to (2) overcomes increasingly difficult obstacles (3) to reach an important goal. The more important the goal, the stronger the novel. And the most important goal that any of us have is survival. That's why murder mysteries are more gripping than a story titled "Who Stole My TV Set. — Lois Duncan

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Today the average lifetime is over seventy years, long enough for a great number of accomplishments. But this development has occurred within the present century. Before that, people tended to die much younger than they do today, and among those early deaths were those of many brilliant and talented people who had much to give the world. It is those people to whom I reach out. It is to them I offer the opportunity to return. — Lois Duncan

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We are the wise. Do not envy us - We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom - We who are too wise to live Lest we should die. — Lois Duncan

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She leaned over the bed to plant a goodbye kiss on his cheek. Instead he reached up and cupped her head in his left hand, so that he was in charge of her kiss and it landed oh his lips. It was not, as she would have expected, the fumbling kiss of a boy unused to dating but the practiced kiss of a man who knew exactly what he was doing. — Lois Duncan

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If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity — Lois Duncan

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College guys are different. They're looking for quality. — Lois Duncan

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The best things in life are simple. Simple things work. They don't foul up. It's the complicated things that get twisted around on you. — Lois Duncan

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December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface. — Lois Duncan

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Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will come out of, and the more they feed into it, the richer those stories will be. — Lois Duncan

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She thought ray i'll never see ray again there was a time she looked into those green eyes and said i love you so long ago he'll never know i still do — Lois Duncan

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The silence was gone now, and the night was filled with voices - a chirp, a growl, a twitter - a burst of high-pitched laughter. — Lois Duncan

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I feel now as though I've been sitting all my life inside a box, and suddenly someone is lifting the lid and I can look up and see the stars. — Lois Duncan

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Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know. — Lois Duncan

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Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ. — Lois Duncan