"I don't trust happiness. I turn it over……" — Jennifer Weiner
"I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads."
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87 Quotes by Jennifer Weiner
Jennifer Weiner has 87 quotes on this site.
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I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
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Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
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I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.
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I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.
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I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
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I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for…
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People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I…
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... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who…
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You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.
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Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the…
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Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
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I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and…
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More Chipped Quotes
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For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos they're rebellious.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are…
— Judd Nelson
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The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite…
— Aaron Russo
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A chipped pebble is almost part of the hand it never leaves. A thrown spear declares a sort of independence…
— Isaac Asimov
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Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes…
— James Bovard
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A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in…
— Jeff Noon
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Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the…
— Bill Keller
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Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers…
— Earl Warren
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I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.
— Paul McCartney
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Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't…
— Stanislaw Lem
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