The Year of Magical Thinking, |
There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise. |
There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible. |
There's hardly anything I can say about this except thank you, |
This one is really fantastic, ... It's not about grieving. It's about what happens when people die. |
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self |
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self |
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. |
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. |
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? |
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? |
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. |
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget |
We tell ourselves stories in order to live, |
We tell ourselves stories, |