"Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit……" — Amy Bloom
"Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting."
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43 Quotes by Amy Bloom
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It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes…
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Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through…
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I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax…
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Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.
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Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.
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Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like…
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In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over,…
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Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy…
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I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb…
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Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
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There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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