Writers are always selling somebody out. - Joan Didion

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We've been everywhere around Northwest. I was biking until the clouds came. We'll go in the woods, we'll go up and down the river. I love the woods in Sandy, but it's an hour away, so I don't love that.

Joan Didion

Writers are always selling somebody out.

Journalism, Selling, Somebody, Writers, Writing

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

Cure, Cures, Dissatisfaction, Jealousy, See, Self

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.

Away, Bereavement, Inspirational, Loss, Mortal, Mortality

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.

Like, Ought, Parent, People, Thinking

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

Ability, Depends, Mastery, Self, Think, Thinking

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?

Choices, Free, Memories, Night, Span, Time

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Hampton Fancher

Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming when you're awake: you're sitting on the subway and you look around, and you can think of sinister things that are kind of delightful to think of because they're not really happening, but they are in your mind. They're about wishes, desires - sexy, dangerous, hopeful, the way it could be, maybe.

Delightful, Dream, Dreaming, Sexy, Think, Thinking

Kathryn Stockett

What you learn today?" I ask even though she ain't in real school, just the pretend kind. Other day, when I ask her, she say, "Pilgrims. They came over and nothing would grow so they ate the Indians. " Now knew them Pilgrims didn't eat no Indians. But that ain't the point.

Came, Day, Eat, Real, School, Today

David Giuntoli

Came, Clouds, Down, River, Rivers, Woods

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

Alone, Going Away, Praising, Speaker, Talking, Thoughtful

Michael Nutter

If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy!

Crazy, Hair, Half, Office, Tattoo, Tattoos