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- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.

Candace Bushnell

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Candace Bushnell
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 1
Columnist
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Carrie Bradshaw
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I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.
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This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.
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You have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.
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Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory
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At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity.
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maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.
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You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.
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I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
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I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I drink so much that I can barely walk...I'm a fantastic lover though, and an amazing friend. God knows I mean well.
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I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.
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And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?
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I don't like to think of myself as a 'virgin'. I prefer to think of myself as 'sexually incomplete'. You know. Like I haven't finished the course yet.
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. . . She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today.
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I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life
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Men, Babies, it doesn't matter...we're soulmates
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Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, �and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, �as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.
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The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
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I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.
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