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Joan Didion

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."

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"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."

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"Fear stagnation, embrace change."

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"Fear leads to worry. Worry leads to depression. But faith overcomes fear and worry."

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"Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear."

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"Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!!"

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"Fear not failure but success."

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"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."

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"Fear, ignorance, and hatred - these are the trinity of malice."

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"Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices."

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"Horror spawns horror."

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"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."

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"I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response."
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"As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become..."
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"I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness."
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"We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as 'ordinary blessings."
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"A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.Wrong, I want to say.In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age."
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"I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story."
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"I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future."
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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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"Memories are what you no longer want to remember."
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"Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself."
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