"I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel."
-Joan Didion
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"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.“
-Joan Didion
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"Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it."
-Joan Didion
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"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."
-Joan Didion
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"Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power."
-Joan Didion
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"Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that."
-Joan Didion
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"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
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"One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up."
-Jeff Goodell
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
-Charles Babbage
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
-Jeff Goodell
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
-Charles Babbage
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
-Jeff Goodell
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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