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Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

Judith Viorst

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Judith Viorst
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: February 2
Author
Journalist
Writer
Newark
New Jersey
Friend
Pleasures
Hair
Slow
Pleasure
Dancing
Child
Embrace
Place
Sun
Children
Ordinary
Life
Quiet
Safe
Lighting

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[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.
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Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
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I had it together on Sunday. By Monday at noon it had cracked. On Tuesday debris Was descending on me. And by Wednesday no part was intact. On Thursday I picked up some pieces. On Friday I picked up the rest. By Saturday, late, It was almost set straight. And on Sunday the world was impressed With how well I had got it together.
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Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.
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When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.
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No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.
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Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
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Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
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Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying I love you.
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I think I'll move to Australia.
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Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.
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Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother's and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to mood, advancing and retreating-the quintessential model of two-mindedness.
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We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our love for our children urges us to change as nothing else in our lives has the power to do. We grow (if we're willing to grow, that is: not every parent is willing) because being a parent helps us stop being a child.
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Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.
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Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our second other-elaborates on them.
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One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
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