Heidi Julavits Quotes
We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other.
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Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
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I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.
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It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.
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Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
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I'm bad at rationalisation - very bad.
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As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes, of course we're going to get a lot of plain, mediocre trash. There are a lot of writers who get huge advances for books that don't go anywhere and they have to burn them somewhere or throw them away. I always think about all the poor trees that have been sacrificed.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.
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To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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You don't know how a song is gonna do; you don't know where it's gonna live. You know if it feels real, if it feels authentic.
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Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.
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In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.
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There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.
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How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum cleaner has replaced hand cleaning? My guess is this ‘job displacement’ has been very welcome, as will the ‘job displacement’ that will occur over the next 10 years. This is a good thing. Everyone wants more jobs and less work.
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Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
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Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.
