The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~ Joan Didion
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Well, between Scotch and nothin’, I suppose I’d take Scotch. It’s the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
~ William Faulkner
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
~ Joan Didion
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The artist is of no importance.
~ William Faulkner
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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that she remakes it in his own image.
~ Joan Didion
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Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
~ William Faulkner
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
~ George Orwell
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
~ George Orwell
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Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
~ George Orwell
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
~ George Orwell
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