Candace Bushnell

Writer

1959-12-01

Books by Candace Bushnell

Sex and the City
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Lipstick Jungle
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The Carrie diaries
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Quotes by Candace Bushnell

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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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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it's telling yourself that you want the things that society tells you you should want. women thikn that survival depends on conformity. but for some women, conformity is death. it's a death to the soul. the soul, she said, is a precious thing. when you live a lie, you damage the soul.
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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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If everyone in New York took sides over these petty, insignificant arguments, no one would have any friends at all.
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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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The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings of the projects that stretched for blocks along the drive. Something inside her sank at the sight of all that sameness, and she suddenly felt defeated.She shifted uncomfortably in her seat. In the past year, she'd started experiencing these moments of desperate emptiness, as if nothing really mattered, nothing was ever going to change, there was nothing new; and she could see her life stretching before her--one endless long day after the next, in which every day was essentially the same. Meanwhile, time was marching on, and all that was happening to her was that she was getting older and smaller, and one day she would be no bigger than a dot, and then she would simply disappear. Poof! Like a small leaf burned up under a magnifying glass in the sun. These feelings were shocking to her, because she'd never experienced world-weariness before. She'd never had time. All her life, she'd been striving and striving to become this thing that was herself--the entity that was Nico O'Neilly. And then, one morning, time had caught up with her and she had woken up and realized that she was there. She had arrived at her destination, and she had everything she'd worked so hard for: a stunning career, a loving (well, sort of) husband, whom she respected, and a beautiful eleven-year-old daughter whom she adored.She should have been thrilled. But instead, she felt tired. Like all those things belonged to someone else.
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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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It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.
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A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal.-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337
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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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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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Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.
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The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
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Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away
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Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.
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Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.
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Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away
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Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.
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A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal.-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337
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