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“I'm not the cool kids. Cool kids never speak up, they are too busy with being cool. Speaking up is for the real gangstas.”
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“If you’ve ever been taken to court over something you’ve written, you’re a legend.
If you write something legendary enough to keep you out of court, you’re powerful.”
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“Picture it! Sicily, 1922 you’re on trial for standing your ground and what you’ve written about the prosecuting attorneys shoes makes into the cross examination- and court record, I’d say you’re a legend. They have no defense. You’ve just pissed the girls off. - Freely Speaking”
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“I'm an open book, but I am still a hardcover.”
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“The "Village" should always have the child's best interest at heart. Otherwise, it's not a village.”
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“Some people are not worth the weight of words. I do not argue with, nor do I debate with just any ol' body. I would have to respect you before I entertain either, I will leave my comment and then I will be on my way.”
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“Normalize not believing everything you hear. Normalize fact checking.”
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“If you stop speaking to me over something you heard I did or said, please keep that same energy when you hear that it was a lie. There are no do-overs here. Sincerely, Self-Care and Preservation.”
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“There's this word Libel that people love to pass around when filing lawsuits against someone who accurately described them in a publication. It does not scare me because I know that the story terrifies them enough to stick to the compromise that I called it fiction”
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“Our situation and circumstances are not always the Karma that our haters and enemies would like us to think that it is. It's the manifestation of GOD's Glory and the evidence will be in the outcome. Don't let your temporary situation prematurely punctuate the end of your story.”
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“My only response to those who persecute me when they can’t seem to understand, process, or believe the truth about the things I’ve been through and the glory of it all is simply this: Wow! Of all the things that GOD could use you for in this world, he found nothing. Nothing? Damn”
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“Wouldn't it be like really cool and kick ass if people demonstrated compassion for others on a daily..”
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“Solutions often provide the closure we need to activate our ability to let go and move on, but our approach to be optimistic by pursuing closure through finding solutions is what keeps us talking about it and it teeters on that line of holding on to something.”
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“Writing is pain relief, or at least pain management.”
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“You only have one life but you can have as many transformations as you'd like.”
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“Don't tell me where I live if I have not told you where I live. That's not the flex. It's creepy.”
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“Doctor: You need to eliminate your stressors. It's not looking good.
Me: How exactly do I do that when I must see my stressor daily.”
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“Profits are and would be nice. However, I benefit from the healing component in writing and I’ve always taken prescribed doses when there’s an onset for the need. Writing is my superpower. Writing is my healing potion.”
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“As we move through the seasons we are in, we move knowing that another is always to follow and the process repeats as we move through the years.”
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“If you don't like what's written into someone's story about who you are/were, then you should have played a better character.”
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“I killed everyone in the book. But I was the only one who died in reality.”
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“One of the morals to the story: Don't just study your cards... study the players.”
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“If someone insults you, just chalk it up to them being at a lost for words.”
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“It's a tough one but its worth the read”
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“A courtroom, Lawyers, Judges, rainbows, tilts, a card shark, a Royal Flush, a Bachelors Dream and a poker table is one hell of a story.”
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“Writer exits stage left. In walks, HER. 'Don't mind me, I'm just getting into character.' " - Lexi Vaughn aka China Doll from The Tale of The Texas Poker Player”
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“Vindication is mine says the Author.”
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“I wrote the book because I was the main character in the movie. Or, did I write the movie because I was the main character in the book.”
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“For the record, I am the record.”
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“I don’t want to die, chasing a whale. That was my takeaway from Moby Dick”
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“Go with me into the book. It's safe here.”
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“Fiction is for those who like to escape to an all expense paid, priceless journey to a place which may or may not exist for the sake experiencing every ride the attraction has to offer and to take anyone with them in exchange for the small cost of the purchase of the book.”
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“Our situation and circumstances are not always the karma that our enemies and haters would love to think that it is... I am convinced that when you've done nothing wrong; it is the perpetual manifestation of GOD's GLORY and the evidence will be seen in the outcome. Don't let your temporary circumstance and situation prematurely punctuate the end of your story.”
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“They thought she was just playing cards. They never noticed she was studying people. The difference between amateurs and legends isn’t the cards they’re dealt— it’s what they see while everyone else is distracted.”
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“There is a profound detachment from reality in expecting someone to recover from harm while simultaneously refusing them the right to acknowledge its origin.
Healing is, by definition, investigative. It requires tracing cause to effect, experience to impact, injury to source. When individuals protest this process, what they are often resisting is not injustice, but attribution.
If the path toward restoration reveals them as the central contributor to the damage, the discomfort they feel is not persecution — it is proximity to accountability.
One cannot demand anonymity after leaving fingerprints.”
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“Dr. Datura was good. But only a certain type of woman believed him. They were usually the ones looking to be saved. The forlorn ones.”
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“Know who's at the table. You act! I write!”
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“I wish that people knew that anyone can file a frivolous lawsuit with false claims as well.
I hate that the court of public opinion always weighs in on it without any facts or substantial evidence.
People want to validate their hate toward others so much that this has become the norm.”
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“Does your murder, crime mystery novel terrify your readers into thinking that the writer must also be a deranged lunatic? If not, then rewrite it.”
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“Trying to translate a court order while having a 8th grade education is wild to me. Just do the job you were hired to do, Dana.”
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“Social media has been the largest platform on the internet to disperse optical illusions that we have seen thus far. GOD forbid there become more... with editing capabilities, photoshop, filters, CGI, AI, green screens, backdrops which are all available when curating, crafting to create and alter whatever reality you want. Yet Social media is the place where people choose to come and go, for information about you. Make that make sense.”
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“Ignorance has no rewards.”
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“It is true that in the absence of information, people tend to assume the worse. But I believe that even in the presence of information, people still refuse to read.”
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“Tell the story! Put it in a book. Call it fiction. And when the characters want to test your gangster, pull out the receipts and shut the whole house down with the recordings.”
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“The transformation into something that can fly, is the reason I am called a butterfly.”
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“Here I am counting my blessings, wins and successes, while the closest people to me are counting my trials, losses and curses. Same book, different page. It be your own family.”
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“The story is in the story. Not everyone reads... A few will listen. No one hears..”
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“When a man can’t accept rejection, there’s no such thing as letting him down easy. So just accept the fact that he might call you a mean, stuck up B! among other things depending on how bruised his ego is over you politely saying you’re not interested. It’s not you- it’s him.”
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“In and out of a relationship with our ex's can be compared to that thing we go back and forth to the kitchen searching for, throughout the day or night (mostly sweets to satisfy a craving) looking each time to find that there's absolutely nothing there. Why do we do this?”
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