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#1

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: dance, dancing, definition, innuendo, sex, widely-misattributed, wordplay

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#2

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

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#3

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

tags: dance, dancing, reading

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#4

“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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#5

“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
― Joan Didion

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#6

“Character 鈥� the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life 鈥� is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Joan Didion, On Self-Respect

tags: character, life, responsibility, self-respect

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#7

“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

tags: emotional-roots, identity, past, personal-history, self

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#8

“I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

tags: friendship, love, partnership

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#9

“Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

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#10

“It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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#11

“I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

tags: sensibility, tears

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#12

“I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?”
― Joan Didion

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#13

“We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but I had also known what he meant. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them. He meant wanting. He meant living.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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#14

“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
― Lord George Gordon Byron

tags: death, sleep

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#15

“I am ashes where once I was fire...”
― Lord Byron, Selected Poems

tags: age, loss

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#16

“She remembered who she was
and the game changed.”
― Lalah Delia

tags: awakening, divine-mother, divine-strength, do-the-work, doing-the-work, emerging, encouragement, god-is-with-you, god-is-working-in-your-life, growth, inner-strength, inspirational, journey, journey-of-life, lalah-delia, life-path, life-philosophy, life-purpose, love, meditation, minimalism, motivational, philosophy, purposeful-living, rebirth, reemerging, sacred-feminine, self-actualization, self-confidence, self-improvement, self-love, self-mastery, self-realization, spiritual, spirituality, trust-the-journey, trust-the-process

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#17

“Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling 鈥� I don't think it's any of that 鈥� it's helpless ... it's absence of control 鈥� and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that 鈥� I have no use for it whatsoever."

[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
― Toni Morrison

tags: anger, control, emotions, inspiration, power, writing

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#18

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth

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#19

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
― Phyllis Diller

tags: anger, funny, sleep

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#20

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish鈥� You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: anger, books, friends, greedy, life, loneliness, man, myself, selfish, travel, woman, work, write

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#21

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

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#22

“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#23

“You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.”
― Marguerite Duras, Practicalities

tags: love, men

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#24

“I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You鈥檙e destroying me. You鈥檙e good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for love? How could I know you fit my body like a glove? I like you. How unlikely. I like you. How slow all of a sudden. How sweet. You cannot know. You鈥檙e destroying me. You鈥檙e good for me. You鈥檙e destroying me. You鈥檙e good for me. I have time. Please, devour me. Deform me to the point of ugliness. Why not you? Why not you in this city and in this night, so like other cities and other nights you can hardly tell the difference? I beg of you.”
― Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour

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#25

“It鈥檚 not that you have to achieve anything, it鈥檚 that you have to get away from where you are.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#26

“I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

tags: love

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#27

“He says he鈥檚 lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she鈥檚 lonely too. She doesn鈥檛 say why.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

tags: lonely, love, marguerite-duras, the-lover

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#28

“We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: disappointment, relationships, young-love

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#29

“People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.”
― DaShanne Stokes

tags: class-conflict, class-struggle, conflict, conflicts, control-issues, controlling-others, controlling-people, deceit, deceit-quotes, deception, deception-quotes, false-consciousness, ideology, political-power, power, racism, racist, war, warfare

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#30

“You always seek to control others when you are not in full ownership of yourself.”
― Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

tags: controlling-others, self-ownership

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