"When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full……" — Joan Juliet Buck
"When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous."
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17 Quotes by Joan Juliet Buck
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With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious…
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Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own.
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I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.
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The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it…
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I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think…
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I always find myself loathing what I've just been before - the person who was living in the apartment that…
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I only envy as basic old sexual jealousy.
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To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I…
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I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the…
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I'm scared that if I collaborated on something with somebody, I would be in some way losing my own contact…
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Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and…
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I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies.…
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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