Heidi Julavits Quotes
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.
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So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.
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Holy Joe: And on the day of judgment everything will be replayed, even your thoughts
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The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.
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All your thoughts are in another head. Your dreams are sleepin' in a different bed. The force that moves you is a circular breath of life and death going round and round and round.
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There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form; but if the scholar can get at only one a week by diligent search, his syntheses are not likely to keep up with the current scene.
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'Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.'
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I trow that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.
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Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.
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I'm retired, man. I'm loving it. Just being a bum. I kind of like it.
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I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
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I think doctors are really suffering now. They're suffering in the sense that they feel torn between serving their patients in the best way they can and dealing with all of requirements of the insurance companies and the HMOs and the hassles and the paper work and the increasing pressures to do less and less for their patients.
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You should never read online comments if you want to keep thoughts above the belt.
