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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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Joan Didion
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. – Joan Didion

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Property
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I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story… – Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, 2012

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Fear is just not a part of my life – so much so that if its involved in somebody elses life and theyre close to me, I wont be around them. – Jeremy Renner

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Fear

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. – Aristotle

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Fear

I have never known any distress that an hours reading did not relieve. – Charles de Montesquieu

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Fear

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Desert rains are usually so definitely demarked that the story of the man who washed his hands in the edge of an Arizona thunder shower without wetting his cuffs seems almost credible. – Administration in the State of Arizona, U.S. public relief program, 1935-1943

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I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know thats really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didnt overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it. – Giada De Laurentiis

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