Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic.
Quoted by Joan Didion
How could this have happened when everything was normal?
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Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.
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Everything's going along as usual and then all shit breaks loose.
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You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change.
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Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
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The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
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It was the kind of Sunday to make one ache for Monday morning.
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There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
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That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.
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There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self
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Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
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The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.
Quoted by Joan Didion