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The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. - Joan Didion

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. – 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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Science Fiction
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Joan Didion
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one – Joan Didion

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Envy / Jealousy
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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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Business
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Weather
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Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life. – Terri Guillemets, “Evening walk in solitude,” 1989

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Weather

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. – Patrick Young

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Weather

Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm. – Terri Guillemets, “The truth of weather,” 2006

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Weather

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? – J.B. Priestley

Category:
Weather

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Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. – Elia Kazan

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cool

I have… had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out. – Colin McEnroe

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Advertising

I like change. Theres something Buddhist about it – continuous change is wonderful. – David Bailey

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Change

Climb the ladder of dead mistakes to your goal. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Experience