[In her devastating new book,] The Year of Magical Thinking, ... cut loose any fixed idea I had ever had about death, about illness, about probability and luck, about good fortune and bad, about marriage and children and memory, about grief, about the ways in which people do and do not deal with the fact that life ends, about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.
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Related Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna? ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too. ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo... ABOUT LIFE But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way ... EDMOND ABOUT It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the coun... EDMOND ABOUT I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians,... EDMOND ABOUT I fight fairly, and in good faith. EDMOND ABOUT Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. EDMOND ABOUT At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering
my petunias, and thinking of noth... EDMOND ABOUT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES With a good friend it’s not always how long you knew them, but how well you did. JANET GURTLER THE TRUTH ABOUT US If you love her. If you want her to stay. Fight for her. JANET GURTLER THE TRUTH ABOUT US We need not fear death, for it is simply the next phase of life. We never die, we simply change form... THE TRUTH I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external pu... EDVARD MUNCH I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes th... EMIR KUSTURICA Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about say... STEFAN MOLYNEUX Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions, ... They're human stories about fam... ORLANDO BLOOM I only knew Chandra Levy for five months. And in that five months' period, we never had a discussion... GARY CONDIT Life is less about luck and more about attitude. LALIT BHOJWANI My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner... ALICE MCDERMOTT I once read the sentence 'I lay awake all night with a toothache, thinking about the toothache an ab... C.S. LEWIS I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM Life brings only so much luck which when used up leaves you without a safety net. MICHAEL R. FRENCH Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv... ABIGAIL GEORGE The beauty about life is that it ends in unpredictable death. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write ab... OCTAVIA E. BUTLER I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story... J.R. MOEHRINGER Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural id... MICHAEL LEUNIG You ever get the feeling all hell’s about to break loose and there’s nothing you can do about it... ALI VALI She saw in his eyes that he knew she was thinking about him. She liked the fact that he knew it, and... NICHOLAS SPARKS There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virgin... LILY KOPPEL I wanted to write about the idea of a multi-generational household because Americans don't live like... DAN SAVAGE I couldn't finish the sandwich, and I wanted to do something about it. We all felt bad about not eat... ANDY NEARY On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I... DUKE ELLINGTON Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about... ORLANDO BLOOM The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make be... RICCARDO SABATINI Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. it's like forever, always ch... SARAH DESSEN I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. UPTON SINCLAIR Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better. LYNDA HERNANDEZ The soul that is within me no man can degrade. FREDERICK DOUGLAS I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. KEANU REEVES Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their... EILEEN CADDY If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art... ANSARI No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ... EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices. J. PETIT-SENN You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really mat... TIFFANY GARLAND Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f... RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I have never been contained except I made the prison. MARY EVANS There were so many people, so much to navigate, and as the distance fluctuated between us his hand k... SARAH DESSEN Forever [is] so many different things. It is always changing... it is twenty minutes, or a hundred y... SARAH DESSEN karma's a bitch, and so am I RACHEL CAINE In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, ... JOHNNY ISAKSON We talked about the fact that yes, she was going to spend a great deal of her life taking care of Ch... BONNIE MONTE I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life... DANIEL BARENBOIM I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talkin... RAINN WILSON Marriage is not about living the moment, it's about living a life. LIZBETH CRUZ And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the ... TIM O'BRIEN Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around. DAVID LODGE My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that '... CHELSEA CLINTON [NEW YORK, New York (CNN)--In] Something to Talk About ... She realizes upon discovering that her hu... JULIA ROBERTS I always laugh whenever someone says it's not about the money, ... It's about the money. I had to do... JEFF ROBINSON He was the fantasy of every girl in the country. He was so far out of realm, her world, that she sho... MARISSA MEYER If thinking the worst about me makes you feel better about yourself, then by all means go ahead and ... ROSA M. BETANCES The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I f... CAMILLA BELLE There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the expe... CHARLES IVES Terrell Owens' book is one of the most candid ever written about professional football, and perhaps ... BOB BENDER I wept this morning thinking about our city. I was thinking about the families and children who drow... DANNY WUERFFEL We had this dream with CBS about promoting this type of music to people who did not know about it an... GABRIEL ABAROA People have been talking about him since he was a freshman. I never had any conversations with him a... GARY LINDGREN You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and de... EVAN ESAR My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone... LALAINE You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it w... HESTON BLUMENTHAL And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or... ROBERT JAY LIFTON You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how compl... AZAR NAFISI Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have tha... NICOLAS CAGE So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a ver... JENNIFER EHLE It’s not about optimism, pessimism or realism. It’s not about thinking nothing bad will ever hap... BROWNELL LANDRUM Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way roun... DAVID LODGE Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way roun... DAVID LODGE The story broke down barriers that people had about health and diabetes. When talking to children an... GEORGIA PEREZ They see the DVD and they learn a little more about the subject and they can do something about the ... LUKE BURGESS Right now I have to think about here. I know about the [jersey] but I have to think about my family.... VLADIMIR GUERRERO For the moment I am not worried about the future of any player and I'm only thinking about getting a... ARSENAL WENGER It's not about hate. I don't hate Muslims. This is not about Islam. This is about terrorism impactin... JOSH STULMAN This is about realizing that the Olympics is more than about network television now, and the future ... RANDY FALCO There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about w... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people whi... C. JOYBELL C. When I heard that James Mangold was directing a movie about the life of Johnny Cash, I wanted to do ... JOAQUIN PHOENIX I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was ... PIERRE LOTI Do you ever wonder about the fairy tales of life? LAILAH GIFTY AKITA All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about dea... RAY WINSTONE French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; ... LAFCADIO HEARN Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you... JACKIE COLLINS You are tired of always needing answers. Always answering questions. Always asking questions that de... THOMAS LLOYD QUALLS The people in the community have talked more about athletics than losing 7-12 busing. I've had more ... JEFFREY GRODI Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a poin... ROGER PENROSE You have the ability to write melodies and to put lyrics that mean something: to speak about life an... JIMI WESTBROOK When you don't have any idea about something which happened in the history, or something which about... TOBA BETA I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. BILLY BISHOP
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