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I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

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The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

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I've only ever been interested in drugs as therapeutic tools.

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The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

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