Judith Viorst Quotes
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A woman should be an illusion.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
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My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.
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Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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One has to be fully aware of the fact that the prevailing system of arms control agreements is a complex and quite fragile structure
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When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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Thomas Edison method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.
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The lives we lead are determined, for better and worse, by our loss experiences.
