Joy Williams Quotes
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
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I love my fans so much! I know I say it all the time, but I really appreciate all the things they have done for me.
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I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run.
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Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.
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Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
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Are there no prisons?
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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
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Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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You can't coach that. You either have it or not.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.
