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Certain Quotes by Joan Didion
- Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
- I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval…
- People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in…
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- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
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