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I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic co

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad. – Mary Gordon

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It was actually a womens writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction. – Mary Gordon

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Courage
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One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss. – Mary Gordon

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relationship
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Isnt it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? – Richard Dawkins

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sad

I didnt really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, its the fixtures and fittings that finish you off. – Angelina Jolie

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sad

Its an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk. – Winona Ryder

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sad

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. – Jean Paul

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sad

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Where I live, nobody whos fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think its so important to preserve your innocence. – Natalie Portman

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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. – Barbara De Angelis

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I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didnt read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene. – Peter Porter

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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers. – Black Elk

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