“You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.”

—  Sidney Sheldon, book Nothing Lasts Forever

Source: Nothing Lasts Forever

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American writer 1917–2007

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