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"It took me to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really raring to go. I was in my study writing. I was learning how to go down into myself and salvage bits and pieces of the past. I was learning how to sneak up on the unconscious and how to catch my seemingly random thoughts and fantasies. By closing me out of his world, Bennett had opened all sorts of worlds inside my own head. Gradually I began to realize that none of the subjects I wrote poems about engaged my deepest feelings, that there was a great chasm between what I cared about and what I wrote about. Why? What was I afraid of? Myself, most of all, it seemed. "Freedom is an illusion," Bennett would have said and, in a way, I too would have agreed. Sanity, moderation, hard work, stability . . . I believed in them too. But what was that other voice inside of me which kept urging me on toward zipless fucks, and speeding cars and endless wet kisses and guts full of danger? What was that other voice which kept calling me and egging me on to burn my bridges, to swallow the poison in one gulp instead of drop by drop, to go down into the bottom of my fear and see if I could pull myself up? Was it a voice? Or was it a thump? Something even more primitive than speech. A kind of pounding in my gut which I had nicknamed my "hunger-thump." It was as if my stomach thought of itself as a heart. And no matter how I filled it--with men, with books, with food--it refused to be still. Unfillable--that's what I was. Nymphomania of the brain. Starvation of the heart."
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feminism
thoughts
writing
insecurity
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Erica Jong |
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If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
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action
bravery
doubt
feelings
follow-your-dreams
good-enough
just-do-something
passion
perseverance
pursue-your-dreams
risk
take-action
courage
musician
persistence
faith
fear
confidence
dreams
motivational
success
inspirational
actor
just-do-it
athlete
concern
business
encouraging
career
security
ambition
determination
contentment
skill
worry
emotions
gift
talent
insecurity
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Criss Jami |
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We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
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affirmation
status
self-esteem
insecurity
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Alain de Botton |
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He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
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happy
love
insecure
line-of-beauty
insecurity
sad
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Alan Hollinghurst |
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A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!
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self-doubt
infant
jewish
manhood
insecurity
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Philip Roth |
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There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends even before they speak, that it was Edward. He sounded as if he were calling from the bottom of a well. I still thank my stars that I didn't say what I nearly said, because the good professor's phone pals were used to cheering or teasing him out of bouts of pessimism and insecurity when he would sometimes say ridiculous things like: 'I hope you don't mind being disturbed by some mere wog and upstart.' The remedy for this was not to indulge it but to reply with bracing and satirical stuff which would soon get the gurgling laugh back into his throat. But I'm glad I didn't say, 'What, Edward, splashing about again in the waters of self-pity?' because this time he was calling to tell me that he had contracted a rare strain of leukemia. Not at all untypically, he used the occasion to remind me that it was very important always to make and keep regular appointments with one's physician.
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friends
friendship
leukemia
self-pity
edward-said
pessimism
insecurity
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Christopher Hitchens |
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I learned something important that night. You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.
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life-lessons
life
insecurities
selfconfidence
life-lesson
teenagers
vulnerable
vulnerability
insecurity
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Cecelia Ahern |
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My dreams tend to be either so obscure as to seem random, or so obviously connected to my subconscious that it's embarrassing- as if even my hidden depths lack depth.
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jess-walter
insecurity
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Jess Walter |
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David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jade worried. She was trying so hard to look just like everyone else!
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ethnic
sweet-valley
insecurity
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Francine Pascal |
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La actual preocupacion casi histerica por la seguridad es en el mejor de los casos un derroche de recursos y un obstaculo para el espiritu humano, y en el peor de los casos una invitacion al totalitarismo. Se necesita con urgencia educacion publica.
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insecurity
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Michael Crichton |
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"This sense of insecurity was falling about the entire planet and though people went on doing the things they usually did, they had none of the assurance, the happy-go-lucky "all-right" feeling, that had hitherto sustained normal men. They went on doing their customary things because they could not think of anything else to do. They tried to believe, and many did succeed in believing, that there would presently be a turn for the better. They did nothing to bring about that turn for the better; they just hoped it would occur."
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world
society
insecurity
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H.G. Wells |
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It was more than a spider. It was every unknown terror in the world fused into wriggling, poison-jawed horror. It was every anxiety, insecurity, and fear in his life given a hideous, night-black form.
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fear
insecurity
terror
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Richard Matheson |
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But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton's incredibly energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce at the most opportune moment perhaps the most creative liability in American history.
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insecurity
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Joseph J. Ellis |
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"Adora changed her color scheme from peach to yellow. She promised me she'd take me to the fabric store so I can make new coverings to match. This dollhouse is my fancy." She almost made it sound natural, . The words floated out of her mouth sweet and round like butterscotch, murmured with just a tilt of her head, but the phrase was definitely my mother's. Her little doll, learning to speak just like Adora. "Looks like you do a very good job with it," I said, and motioned a weak wave good-bye. "Thank you," she said. Her eyes focused on my room in the dollhouse. A small finger poked the bed. "I hope you enjoy your stay here," she murmured into the room, as if she were addressing a tiny Camille no one could see."
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parental-approval
scary-houses
families
insecurity
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Gillian Flynn |
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If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.
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mentoring
discipleship
insecurity
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Alexandra Robbins |
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Wenn man meine Seele zeichnen konnte, ware es irgendein wildes Gekritzel mit deutlich sichtbaren Reisszahnen.
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dark-places
draw
malen
seele
unsicherheit
zeichnen
gillian-flynn
paint
thriller
insecurity
horror
soul
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Gillian Flynn |
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"Are you so scared people will hate you?" "What?" I stare at him, not knowing how to react. "What are you talking about?" He gestures at the phone. "Your emails are like one big cry. Kiss, kiss, hug, hug, please like me, please like me!"
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love
insecurity
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Sophie Kinsella |
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She had come to terms with her lack of beauty, but never with her lack of genius in the single thing she had ever wanted.
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insecurity
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Barbara Hambly |
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There was once a man named Joe... Joe was insecure because he had no ears. Joe couldn't hear a goddamn peep. And so he worked hard and saved up some money until eventually he was able to buy himself a pair of ears. And, for the first time in his life, he was able to hear the music of Beethoven and rejoice in the sound of a child's laughter. So Joe was no longer insecure about not having ears... although now he's a little insecure about his speech impediment.
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insecurity-quotes
problems-in-life
joke
insecurity
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David Michael Miller |
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I had a long talk with my husband last night,' Abigail explained, 'and he made me realize that I have to choose which voices to believe. I can believe the ones that tell me I'm not good enough or brave enough or pretty enough and let them skew my perception of events, or I can push aside that clamor and seek out the voice that tells me I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
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love
marriage-life
marriage-life-problem-solution
marriage-of-convenience
supportive-relationship
husband-and-wife-relationship
encouragement
insecurity
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Karen Witemeyer |