Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
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Robert A. Heinlein
You always admire what you really don't understand.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
What you can't get is just what suits you.
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French Proverb
The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.
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Toni Cade Bambara
The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
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A. S. Byatt
More Quotes By Joan Didion
Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life – is the source from which self-respect springs.
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.
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.
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the...
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
