Joan Wickersham quotes
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“There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.”
-- Joan WickershamSource : "7 Truths Women Have To Learn The Hard Way" by Joan Wickersham, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2013.
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“And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.”
-- Joan WickershamSource : Joan Wickersham (2008). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.”
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“[On suicide:] It's the only cause of death that can be used as a noun to describe the dead person. If you die of cancer you are not called 'a cancer.' If someone else shoots you, you are not referred to as 'a murder.' But if you shoot yourself, you are labeled as a suicide. Your death becomes your definition.”
-- Joan WickershamSource : Joan Wickersham (2009). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.”
-- Joan WickershamSource : Joan Wickersham (2008). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?”
-- Joan Wickersham
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“I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.”
Source : Abigail Reynolds (2010). “Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice: A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist”, p.27, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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“False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.”
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Source : "The Bright Green City". Interview with Arnie Cooper, www.thesunmagazine.org. April 2010.
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“I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.”
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“There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills...”
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“I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.”
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