Top 100 Candace Bushnell Quotes
#1. I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
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#2. No matter what you think you can be, when you're forced to stop and look at where you actually are, it's pretty depressing.
Sometimes, there is no escaping the truth
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#3. And then he was there, staring at me from behind the screen door. I'd like to say he no longer affected me, that seeing him was a disappointment. But it wasn't true. I felt as strongly about him as I had on that first day I'd seen him in calculus class.
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#4. A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal.
-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337
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#5. 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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#6. Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am.
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#7. Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.
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#8. I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'
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#10. 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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#11. I like my money right where I can see it ... hanging in my closet
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#12. His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change.
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#13. Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.
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#14. 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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#15. Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.
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#16. When it comes to people
don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.
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#17. If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.
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#19. You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy
because secretly, you don't want it to last.
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#20. What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?
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#21. We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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#22. I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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#23. I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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#24. Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?
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#26. 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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#27. You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
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#28. As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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#30. Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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#31. You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.
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#32. 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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#33. Sometimes the best thing to do is to
pretend it didn't happen
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#34. I will not listen to you, or anybody else. Because you know what? Everyone think they know so goddamned much about everything and no one knows fuck all about anything.
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#35. New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.
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#37. Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.
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#38. I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.
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#39. I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you
don't quit a career.
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#40. 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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#41. I've never understood sexy lingerie. I mean, what's the point? The guy's only going to take it off.
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#42. Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.
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#43. But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was always someone who was richer, more successful, more famous.. The idea of it was sometimes enough to make you want to give up.
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#44. I said, 'Never. Because I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.' That shut her up for a minute. Then she asked where I went to college.
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#45. I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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#46. 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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#47. You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.
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#48. Why do magazines do this to women? It's
all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.
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#49. What?" She gasps. "Who did you do it with? You can't go out there and pick up some random stranger. Oh no, Carrie. You didn't. You didn't pick up some guy at a bar.
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#50. My anger is like some rudimentary, single-celled beast, an exploding virus of fury that paralyses rational thought and blinds me to everything except one single goal ...
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#51. Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
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#52. Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. Damn him. Damn everything. Why is it all so goddamned hard?
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#56. In life,there are only four kinds of girls:
The girl who played with fire.
The girl who opened Pandora's Box.
The girl who gave Adam the apple.
And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.
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#57. Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder
no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.
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#58. My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'
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#59. It was important to remember who you were and where you came from, no matter how successful you became.
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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.
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#64. Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.
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#65. 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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#66. Sex and the City was about looking for Mr Big and trying to find him.
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#67. Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.
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#68. 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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#69. He was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.
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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on.
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#73. 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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#74. I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.
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#75. Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.
-Carrie Bradshaw
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#76. It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.
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#77. It's always the people who don't want things who get them.
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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. She could tell by Philip's attitude that his writing wasn't going well again. He was joyous when it was and miserable when it wasn't.
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#81. Just because someone is a girl doesn't mean she can't be tough and practical and have adventures. That's the way most girls are-until they get around guys. Then guys make them act all stupid.
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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. He's such an asshole you'd never believe he could be religious, but he is.
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#86. This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.
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#87. 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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#88. Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?
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#89. Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.
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#90. 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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#91. - 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.
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#92. Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.
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#93. I take his hand in mine, running my fingers over the palm. His hands are lovely and lean, and I can't help thinking about those hands on my body. The sexiest part of a man is his hands.
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#94. You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.
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#95. The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
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#96. I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.
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#97. I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.
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#98. 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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#99. A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.
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#100. Retribution is tricky ... The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.
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