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Joy Williams Quotes: One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.
         

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.


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Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.



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A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.



You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.



The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.



Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.



Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.



Words at night were feral things.

Words at night were feral things.



There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.



One writes to find words' meanings.

One writes to find words' meanings.



There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.





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But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.

But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.



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I don't really think there's a need to have a men's line. I think a lot of the men's lines just take the products for women and put them in different containers. It's all psychological.



Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.

Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.



I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.

I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.



I feel that as long as you keep running towards your dreams and wish, they'll come true one day. Hard work will not betray ourselves

I feel that as long as you keep running towards your dreams and wish, they'll come true one day. Hard work will not betray ourselves



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Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

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