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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The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.
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Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless.
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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!
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We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.
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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.
