"I've been asked several times since the book Love and Trouble came out, "Are you still sad?" And I'm not, not in the way I was before. I do feel like it was a season in hell that I passed through. But now I'm in despair and sad and confused every day because of our political situation. So the question is: Is it harder or easier to be sad with a reason?"

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Source : Source: www.mtv.com

Claire Dederer

#Confused Quotes #Book Quotes #Political Quotes

“Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.”
“Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love.”
“People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.”
“Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.”
“The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is”
“What is dance? I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.”
“At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.”
“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.”

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