Magical Thinking Quotes

• As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

  Lauren Groff

  Thinking, Persons

  "Bit and Peace: Lauren Groff's Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.

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• We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Order, Stories

  1979 The White Album,'The White Album, 1'.

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• A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

  Joan Didion

  Grieving, Missing, World

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.192, Vintage

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  The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

  Joan Didion

  Life, Respect, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 15, 2011

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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.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 03, 2011

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• Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Expression, Able, Faces

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

  Joan Didion

  Night, Thinking, Doors

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 28, 2016

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  I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Twitter post from Dec 07, 2013

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• As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become.

  Joan Didion

  Children, Writing, Who I Am

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• Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

  Joan Didion

  Grief, Turns, Knows

  Joan Didion (2009). “The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play”, p.58, Vintage

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• Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

  Joan Didion

  Distance, Grief, Eye

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Mar 19, 2013

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• Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

  Joan Didion

  Literature, Information, Working It

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.44, Vintage

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• Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

  Joan Didion

  Life Changing, Ordinary, Existentialism

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.3, Vintage

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• I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.

  Joan Didion

  Order, Trying, Alive

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.225, Vintage

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• we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

  Joan Didion

  Inspirational, Loss, Bereavement

  "The Year of Magical Thinking". Book by Joan Didion, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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• Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

  Joan Didion

  Life, Dinner, Ends

  Joan Didion (2009). “The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play”, p.4, Vintage

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  We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

  Joan Didion

  People, Nodding, Attractive

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It:
  Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child;
  Forms the best foundation for later intellectual growth.
  Provides a way in which children get to know the world and creates possibilities for different ways of responding to it.
  Fosters empathy and wonder.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Emotional, Thinking

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• One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

  Damon Lindelof

  Thinking, Cynicism, Persons

  "Damon Lindelof on ‘The Leftovers’: ‘I’m fighting for the life of the show’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. December 6, 2015.

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• It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the influence of seductive, lascivious, prurient, and violent material in books, films, television. A great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

  John Irving

  Book, Kids, Responsibility

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

  John Shirley

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

  Mike Young

  Thinking, Anxiety, Trying

  Source: 12thstreetonline.wordpress.com

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• People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they're in these circumstances and make them real to you.

  Nicolas Cage

  Children, Real, Believe

  "Knowing - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

  Zoë Heller

  Greatness, Thinking, Keys

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• The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to conspiracy theories than it is to productive political debate.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Thinking, Political, Belief

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