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I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at,

I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. – 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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To have that sense of ones intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. – Joan Didion

Category:
Self Respect
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Joan Didion
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. – Joan Didion

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power
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Joan Didion
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Other Quotes from
Fear
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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out. – Alan Cumming

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Fear

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear were going down a rabbit hole once again – and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps Ive done some damn good here! – Errol Morris

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Fear

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. – Salman Rushdie

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Fear

All the times Ive been lucky enough to be a part of a show thats actually gotten on the air, its always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear. – J. J. Abrams

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Fear

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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Art”

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Quotations

Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start. – Shana Alexander

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Astrology

We cant destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage. – Robin Morgan

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Marriage

Marriage is not about age its about finding the right person. – Sophia Bush

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Age