Quote by Joan Didion
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 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

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Self Respect
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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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Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled. – Joan Didion

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The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you. – Liza Minnelli

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Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Fear

People are only mean when theyre threatened, and thats what our culture does. Thats what our economy does. – Mitch Albom

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Fear

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankinds greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Fear

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One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. – Eugene O’Neill

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Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. – Alvar Aalto

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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. – Baruch Spinoza

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