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I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.
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A man came up to her. Expensively tailored suit. Okay, he wasn't exactly a man because he was only thirty-five. But he was trying.
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I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?
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Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?
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Am I going to spend the rest of my life trying to get some kind of approval from him that he's never going to give?
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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
And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?
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Maybe you can't have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway?
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When it comes to people don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature. — Candace Bushnell
There are so many beautiful girls around that after a while you start looking for someone who can make you laugh
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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
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Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.
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When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.
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Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.
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Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.
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She had very little money, but she wasn't afraid-there was only one place to go, and that was up.
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All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.
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Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?
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Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!
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It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.
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Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.
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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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The minute you get engaged, you become public property.
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I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.
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If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.
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Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside ... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
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A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal.-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337 — Candace Bushnell
For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.
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Better alone than badly accompanied.
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When one good thing happened to you, other good things seemed to follow.
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If you smile, even if you're feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you're happy
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Remember the stories you used to write? About that billionaire. You made fun of his fingers! Woo-hooo. 'Short-fingered vulgarian,' you called him.
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Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.
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This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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Yow. Guys can be so insecure.
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Don't you think it's weird when someone has photographs of themselves all over the place? It's like they're trying to prove they exist.
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You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guybecause secretly, you don't want it to last. — Candace Bushnell
There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.
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So much of being a woman is telling lies
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Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.
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Funny always makes the bad things go away.
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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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I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.
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The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.
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As long as one refuses to know one's place, there's no telling what one can do in the world.
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People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it.
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I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And youdon't quit a career. — Candace Bushnell
Sebastian (Se-bastard) is a Scorpio..
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He's such an asshole you'd never believe he could be religious, but he is.
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Don't be silly, my dear. Threats are only meaningful if you have the power to execute them. And you, my dear, do not.
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I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.
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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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Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.
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Your moustache," I continue. "It's kind of like me wanting to be a writer. It's part of me. I don't know who I'd be if I didn't want to be a writer.
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Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?
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I'm a realist. Just because you had sex once doesn't mean you have to fall in love.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.
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I like my money right where I can see it ... hanging in my closet
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I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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I adore him," she said. "I feel compassion for him because he's totally fucked up.
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Sometimes the best thing to do is topretend it didn't happen — Candace Bushnell
Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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Sex and the City was about looking for Mr Big and trying to find him.
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Men, Babies, it doesn't matter...we're soulmates
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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He was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.
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He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.
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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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As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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I stare up the stars, intensely aware of his body a few inches from mine. If this isn't romance, I don't know what is.
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I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.
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My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'
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There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion
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Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie
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New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.
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Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on.
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From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true - he probably is.
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You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.
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That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness.
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It was scary how a girl couldn't live without friends.
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If I didn't define who I was and what I wanted, then someone else would.
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That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.
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What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power.
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It was important to remember who you were and where you came from, no matter how successful you became.
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I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.
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I have this theory: You can get away with anything as long as you act like you're not doing anything wrong.
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