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“I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval as a child automatically guaranteed me not only Phi Beta Kappa keys but happiness, honor, and the love of a good man; lost a certain touching faith in the totem power of good manners, clean hair, and a proven competence on the Stanford-Binet scale. To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the non-plused apprehension of someone who has come across a vampire and has no crucifix at hand.”
― Joan Didion

“Teach us to care and not to care”
― T.S. Eliot

“You never know when you're making a memory

Rickie Lee Jones, from "Young Blood," Ricki Lee Jones (1979)”
― Rickie Lee Jones, The Best of Rickie Lee Jones

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon