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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.


Joan Didion

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ERIK PEVERNAGIE Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find ...
JOAN DIDION I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, ...
ALEXANDER CHEE I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in...
ROB LOWE The order of the universe is like a gem with many facets, and we see only one, that which reflects t...
RAYMOND E. FEIST Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virgin...
LILY KOPPEL What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ...
PAT BUCKLEY We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a ...
GILBERT NEWTON LEWIS Life is richer than poverty; don’t let poverty give you another definition of life! Life is better...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.
DEYTH BANGER The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L...
RACHEL KUSHNER Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latte...
SETH SHOSTAK Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part...
SHANNON L. ALDER [Martin will create and executive the project with his production partner, Joan Stein.] What we and ...
JOAN STEIN I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as...
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG By definition, fiction writers lie for a living.
JANETTE RALLISON Europa is the star of the show. By proving that there is indeed a liquid, briny ocean, [Galileo] tra...
MICHAEL BELTON I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI For our planet, our world, to come as one, to unite, there shall be an alien, extraterrestrial, that...
EPHDAN Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's a...
IRWIN SHAW Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his...
HORATIO NELSON I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean...
LISA GLATT All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM Cherish every relationship in your life. There are certain things in life that can't be fixed if bro...
AVIJEET DAS Embrace YOU...Believe in yourself, in this very moment...forgive yourself for all mistakes and 'bad'...
ANGIE KARAN It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than...
JANE AUSTEN Better a lie that soothes than a truth that hurts
CZECH PROVERB Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS As children we are taught to count in order, stand in order and to live by order. If chaos and disor...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE By his own definition, he is a terrorist.
CINDY SHEEHAN For anyone is an upstart who rises by his own efforts from his previous position in life to a higher...
ADOLF HITLER Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a livi...
JANETTE RALLISON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to ...
BILL BRYSON That is driven by the fact that our clients are looking for higher returns than core properties are ...
ROD VOGEL I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou...
TED DEKKER All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a bett...
BYRON DORGAN Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.
RUDOLF ARNHEIM They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine...
ADRIENNE RICH They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine...
ADRIENNE RICH The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
CLARENCE DARROW The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children
CLARENCE DARROW Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family...
RICHARD BRANSON Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meani...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the bo...
OSCAR S. STRAUSS There is nothing like the "real" me or the "real" you because we are all more than this or that. We ...
JACINTA MPALYENKANA One thing about having children is that even as it complicates many aspects of your life, it simplif...
KATIE KITAMURA No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of s...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that...
GERONIMO Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the pe...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of...
RANDALL JARRELL I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of...
RANDALL JARRELL Its important to understand that a legalist isn't just someone with higher standards or more rules t...
C.J. MAHANEY My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE These are moments of love and ecstasy. Deeply moving moments when we will fly! Fly together in the a...
AVIJEET DAS If history has shown anything, it is that where there is a God, there is an institution trying to lo...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
Please try to describe the picture as ...
DEYTH BANGER That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me...
CHARLES BABBAGE In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no communi...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private l...
PATRICK O'BRIAN From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our futur...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds—but more than anything, this g...
SETH ADAM SMITH A woman is so selfish that in order to safeguard her vested-interest and secure high position, she m...
ANUJ SOMANY It's essentially taking what was the best-performing IPS product in the world, which is our own, and...
ANDY SALO We were all such Didion junkies in college that might still be the highlight of my career.
BRET EASTON ELLIS If anything, other than our own ‘Real Self’, remains in our memory, it is all vishaya [subjects ...
DADA BHAGWAN Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by...
JOSEPH BRODSKY Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army b...
LOIS LOWRY There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes al...
MAHATMA GANDHI Well we writers have defined life in many ways to our meaningful perceptions towards of how we or th...
HLONIM I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of...
RANDALL JARRELL 'Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairnes...
THOMAS SOWELL She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one'...
C.S. LEWIS Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order
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JOAN DIDION It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism ...
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JOAN DIDION Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
JOAN DIDION My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' Al...
JOAN DIDION The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in yo...
JOAN DIDION Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
JOAN DIDION Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only questio...
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JOAN DIDION My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, an...
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JOAN DIDION To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguitie...
JOAN DIDION The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and iv...
JOAN DIDION When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not ...
JOAN DIDION To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...
JOAN DIDION Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies t...
JOAN DIDION Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which s...
JOAN DIDION It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between wha...
JOAN DIDION The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power fo...
JOAN DIDION California: The west coast of Iowa.
JOAN DIDION I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for m...
JOAN DIDION I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good ...
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JOAN DIDION Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than m...
JOAN DIDION You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.
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JOAN DIDION The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not sh...
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JOAN DIDION Everything's going along as usual and then all shit breaks loose.
JOAN DIDION It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That acade...
JOAN DIDION People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have...
JOAN DIDION I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I...
JOAN DIDION Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someon...
JOAN DIDION Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There w...
JOAN DIDION In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season....
JOAN DIDION Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice...
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JOAN DIDION The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
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JOAN DIDION hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.
JOAN DIDION We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget
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JOAN DIDION [In her devastating new book,] The Year of Magical Thinking, ... cut loose any fixed idea I had ever...
JOAN DIDION This one is really fantastic, ... It's not about grieving. It's about what happens when people die.
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JOAN DIDION Life changes fast, ... Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it e...
JOAN DIDION There's hardly anything I can say about this except thank you,
JOAN DIDION To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, sing...
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JOAN DIDION That no one dies of migraine seems to someone deep in an attack as an ambiguous blessing.
JOAN DIDION I closed the box and put it in a closet.
There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
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JOAN DIDION The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not sh...
JOAN DIDION We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
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JOAN DIDION I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.
JOAN DIDION Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing....
JOAN DIDION Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. ...
JOAN DIDION I couldn't give away my husband's shoes. I could give away other things, but the shoes - I d...
JOAN DIDION You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.
JOAN DIDION The Year of Magical Thinking,
JOAN DIDION Call me the author.
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JOAN DIDION Western Attitudes Toward Death.
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JOAN DIDION I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody as...
JOAN DIDION It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figur...
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JOAN DIDION See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of w...
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JOAN DIDION …quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean "love" in any colloquial way, I mean tha...
JOAN DIDION It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often ...
JOAN DIDION It is the phenomenon somethings called "alienation from self." In its advanced stages, we no longer ...
JOAN DIDION We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betr...
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JOAN DIDION I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.
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JOAN DIDION Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
JOAN DIDION Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.
JOAN DIDION I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
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JOAN DIDION I imagined that my own life was simple and sweet, and sometimes it was, but there were odd things go...
JOAN DIDION Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
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JOAN DIDION I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political....
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JOAN DIDION I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.
JOAN DIDION I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.
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JOAN SMALLS I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
JOAN MIRO I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
JOAN RIVERS Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
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JOAN RIVERS I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
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JOAN RIVERS I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.
JOAN RIVERS I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
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JOAN CUSACK I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, w...
JOAN COLLINS I love getting back to Wivenhoe. I get out of my wig, bustle and costume in three minutes flat at th...
JOAN HICKSON Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualiti...
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JOAN BLADES Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
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JOAN COLLINS Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.
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JOAN POWERS A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a...
JOAN RIVERS A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
JOAN LUNDEN Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never t...
JOAN CRAWFORD Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is ...
JOAN MARQUES I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
JOAN COLLINS If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
JOAN WELSH Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of ...
JOAN BORYSENKO