"We begin life with loss. We are cast……" — Judith Viorst
"We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies."
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42 Quotes by Judith Viorst
Judith Viorst has 42 quotes on this site.
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It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.
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Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be…
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Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and…
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The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as…
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For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough…
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Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.
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Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as…
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We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by…
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I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.
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Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.
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Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.
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If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death…
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In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if…
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
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I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I…
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I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because…
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Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
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