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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Anger is so much easier than grief.
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After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.
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Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.
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We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.
