What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to … - Joan Didion

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I read an interview with Aaron Sorkin and he said he plays every part when he's writing. I thought, "Oh, I do that too! I'm doing okay. "

Joan Didion

What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.

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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

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we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

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I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

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The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

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Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

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