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Quote by Joan Didion
Im not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. - J

Im not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. – Joan Didion

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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. – Joan Didion

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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. – Joan Didion

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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. – Joan Didion

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Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness. – Ronald Blythe

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Perhaps I am stronger than I think. – Thomas Merton

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I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength. – Julio Iglesias

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Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team. – Laurent Jalabert

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When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again. – Leon Blum

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There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age. – John Agyekum Kufuor

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With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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The commonest form of malnutrition in the western world is obesity. – Mervyn Deitel

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