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Joan Didion

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.

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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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