Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both. - Jane Fonda

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I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

Jane Fonda

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

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We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

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Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you're with them, you're there and not thinking about what you're gonna do tomorrow.

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Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.

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I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

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But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Women, Liberation, Whole, Act, Point

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Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

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So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

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John McGahern

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Edward Young

Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.

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Hilary Mantel

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

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