"It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present."

-- Marguerite Yourcenar

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“Remembrance is a form of meeting.”
“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
“I think we came out and got the first goals fairly easily and fairly quickly. All of a sudden they started to change the defense and they changed things up on us and I thought we got a little too comfortable. I give their goalie credit, he made some very good saves, but we just wanted to score. We changed some things halfway through the fourth quarter and we were able to generate some shots. I think for most of the year we've been good on offense. We haven't really struggled like that. We knew coming into the season that we'd have to share the ball on offense and really be efficient.”
“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”
“I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.”
“Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.”
“I read your secrets to escape from my own.”
“I don't know what I think until I write it down.”

Source : "Joan Didion Survives 'The Year of Magical Thinking'". Interview with Susan Stamberg, www.npr.org. September 30, 2005.

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