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I closed the box and put it in a closet.
There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.


Joan Didion

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LOWELL HIGHBY Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
ENOCK MAREGESI Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.
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BRYAN THOMPSON Are you happy?
When I can get out of my own way.
And the rest of the time?
The rest o...
ILONA ANDREWS My path is full of petals–I have swept it for no others.
My thatch gate has been closed–but...
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ALLEN IVERSON To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball the...
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PAUL KONERKO There was no unknown. He loved me and I loved him. There was no question, no doubt, no uncertainty, ...
DOMINIC RICCITELLO This is the first meeting of the [committee] that was put
together, ... Truly, until we had the...
DAVID RICE If I knew then what I know now
I guess it'd make no difference;
Fate's sure in the way s...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
CHARLI XCX I like that you’re jealous.”
“Rogan, put the car back.”
“Come to dinner with me ...
ILONA ANDREWS It's
the harshest thing you want to deal with going into a bye week, ... But I'm a grown man. ...
DUANE STARKS is there any I could get a glass of water?"
[waiter]There is no way... I toss and turn many a n...
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BETTY SISK He shrugged. “I have a stomach thing. Don’t get close.”

“Well, now you’ve spoil...
MICHELLE HODKIN It shouldn't even have gotten to that, ... You go out there with the lead, you've got to come in and...
JOE BOROWSKI It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secret...
TIMOTHY WEST I sat in a box
With walls on each side.
Not too tall.
Not too wide.
To think. RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.
JULIE KAGAWA - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Political leaders must display unity and responsibility. There is great deal of work to do and there...
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No matter w...
DALAI LAMA XIV What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight aga...
CARRIE JONES Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We are all living inside a box and we get our information from a box. The box is not real, but we ar...
JAMES DYE Hollis " I said "you're messing with me right now aren't you You're in Paris or somewhere and just-"...
SARAH DESSEN Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings ou...
JENNIFER BROWN It was a real sweat box in there, very humid, ... I got a little woozy and began to feel weaker and ...
ARI FLEISCHER Dear Pat,
You came upon me carving some kind of little figure out of wood and you said, ‘Why ...
JOHN STEINBECK I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the bab...
TAMRA DAVIS If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
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BETTE DAVIS A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else
BETTE DAVIS I had a holding deal with ABC to find me a show, and I was very clear about the kind of show I wante...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
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MARCIA WALLACE Tripping and falling are part of what makes living real
Rising and reaching are what make you c...
MANUELA GEORGE-IZUNWA While walking in a toy store
The day before today,
I overheard a Crayon Box
With many thin...
ANON. I put us in a hole, and with the way Derek threw, we had no chance after that.
GLENDON RUSCH I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.
JOAN CRAWFORD I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&...
PATRICK DEWITT I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with i...
KIM HARRISON There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would li...
LIBBA BRAY We weren't intense enough. There was no real flow. We found a way to win and it wasn't pretty.
TOM RENNEY Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mi...
GEORGE SAUNDERS The real deal is always going to win in the end.
BILL HYBELS I put in so much for this sport, and it kind of stinks to see your teammates lose every match. I jus...
BRETT THIBODEAU I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.
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MICHAEL IAN BLACK I put us in a hole, and with the way Derek threw today, we had no chance after that.
GLENDON RUSCH It was fairly controversial and a real tough way to lose a game.
JEFF STARR How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Sometimes it was better to keep Pandora's box closed.
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THOMAS MALLON I became convinced that I was being watched.

Because self was still leaking everywhere, a...
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LIONEL SUGGS Rockabye Baby, in the treetop
Dont you know a treetop
is no safe place to rock?
And who ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Rockabye Baby, in the treetop
Dont you know a treetop
is no safe place to rock?
And w...
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JULES VERNE This is a real commitment, and we are going to do this for a substantial amount of time. I'm not goi...
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EMILY DEROCCO everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA. everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy b...
GAGAN NARANG So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the
loss, no matter how importa...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Do you wanna leave soon?
No, I want enough time to be in love with everything...
And I cry...
MARINA KEEGAN Oil demand in 2006 is going to grow quite strongly. There's very little spare capacity to deal with ...
FRANCISCO BLANCH One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything.
Sometimes it seems to be hid...
JOSHUA KADISON It's rest I want--there, I have said it out--
From cooking meals for hungry hired men
And wash...
ROBERT FROST To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Do you want to lose 5-1 or 3-2 in a tough game? Either way, it's a loss. We put them on their heels ...
BRYAN SMOLINSKI My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, ...
ALEXANDER CHEE No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful hea...
LIN YUTANG I love my closet, and I always buy things that I love 100 percent. I'm very organized, and I lik...
MELANIA TRUMP There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.
KURT VONNEGUT Then, slowly, like the sunrise peeking over the horizon, she smiled.
She snapped the box closed...
CORA CARMACK So you stay, you don't tell anyone, is that it?"
"Sure," Della Lee said easily.
"That's bl...
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JOAN JETT Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just r...
JOAN CUSACK I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, w...
JOAN COLLINS I love getting back to Wivenhoe. I get out of my wig, bustle and costume in three minutes flat at th...
JOAN HICKSON Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualiti...
JOAN BAEZ What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad ...
JOAN BLADES Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
JOAN LARSEN The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organiz...
JOAN BAEZ When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at mys...
JOAN COLLINS I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando w...
JOAN COLLINS Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.
JOAN WELSH Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can ...
JOAN RIVERS Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until y...
JOAN ERICKSON Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to...
JOAN SMITH If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a...
JOAN RIVERS A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
JOAN LUNDEN Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never t...
JOAN CRAWFORD Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is ...
JOAN MARQUES I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
JOAN COLLINS If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
JOAN WELSH Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of ...
JOAN BORYSENKO