Violet Weingarten Quotes

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It was not at all true that everyone was alike underneath. Deep down, deep deep down, we live in a buried Tower of Babel, intelligible only to ourselves. If that.

Violet Weingarten
Sickness, like sex, demands a private room, or at the very least, a discreet curtain around the ward bed.

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Everyone eventually dies. Why shouldn't I accomplish it as well as the next one? Why not, indeed? I relax. It is all an experience to be experienced; I shall do it as well as the next one.

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A journal is a leap of faith. You write without knowing what the next day's entry will be — or when the last.

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Once on a plane, she resolutely, if temporarily, cut all the cords binding her to life. She never made a list of anything she had to do, or wrote a letter that required mailing, or did anything else that indicated in any way that she ever expected to touch earth again.

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There are no love songs for wives. Only for lost loves, unrequited love, 'I'll see you again whenever spring breaks through again' loves, foggy day in London Town loves, sneaking out in the middle of the night to go to Santa Fe loves, never any here and now, ring on the finger loves.

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To understand is not to forgive, but to castrate; to understand is not to forgive, but to avoid having to be responsible for your own anger; to understand is not to forgive, but not to have the guts to take a stand.

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Report for a routine checkup feeling like a hypochondriac because obviously you're in perfect health, and the doctor mumbles something about "it" having to come out, no rush, next week will be plenty of time.

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