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Jessica Zafra

Jessica Zafra Books

Fiction writer

Born in 1965, Jessica Zafra is a renowned fiction writer known for her unique narrative style and profound humanistic concerns. Her works have won widespread acclaim and have been recognized both domestically and internationally.

Chicken pox for the soul

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Twisted

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The 500 people you meet in hell

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“Singapore is what your city could become if everyone obeyed the rules, did their jobs diligently, and just shut up. When your city gets to be this paragon of efficiency and discipline, would you still want to live there? Singapore is a model city, which is terrific if you happen to be a model human.”

Travel Singapore

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“If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.”

Ifs Honest Pleasant Honest With Yourself

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“My Macbook is my new boyfriend, except that he's dependable and meets all my demands.”

Demand Dependable Macbook New Boyfriend

Author:Jessica Zafra

“We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.”

Ifs Can Do Rewards Mediocrity Comforting

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“Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.”

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“We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.”

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“You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.”

Trying Persons Enough Might Choices White Love You Can Not One Love Hypnosis

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“People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you're better than them, and they get resentful.”

People Thinking Book Self Seems Sufficient Suspicion Self Sufficient Resentful

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“We read because we are essentially alone.”

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“Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?”

Ifs Should Sometimes Would Be Fall Wonder Aspire Madly In Love Sometimes I Wonder

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“To live intensely is a basic human necessity.”

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“There's nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that at some point you're going to have to accept yourself in all your imperfect glory. What's wrong with liking yourself the way you are?”

Way Long Self Accepting Like You Glory Self Improvement Improvement Imperfect Accepting Yourself

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“Beware of those who have never been bored, depressed, or angry. There is something seriously wrong with them.”

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“What does not kill you will make you stronger and more cynical.”

Doe Stronger Cynical Makes You Stronger

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“Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.”

Ifs Wells May Doe Soul Body Might Dies Wonder Healthy Hundred Be Good Your Body Diets Boredom Bland Healthy Diet

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“Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.”

People Giving Form Manipulation Shut Up Whining

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“We are all the same in that we all want to be different.”

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“That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you.”

Book Different Lasts Happened Changed Last Time Great Book You've Changed

Author:Jessica Zafra

“In relationships it is best to assume nothing.”

Assuming Assume Nothing

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“One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.”

Advantage Imaginary Introducing Can Not Stolen Disadvantages

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“We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Feels Looks Self Seems Events Self Esteem Illusion Connections Patterns Deny Esteem Settling What If Messy Illusion Of Control Fooling Ourselves

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“Life is a series of random collisions.”

Life Is Series Collision

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“As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.”

Long Matter Mistake Lessons Horrible Instance Horrible Mistakes

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“Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.”

Doe Seems Love Is Cases Assuming Statements Exception Irrational Proven Amazement

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“Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?”

Should I Can Miserable Should I Loathe

Book:Twisted

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“Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?”

Looks Doe Stuff Happenings Awful Someday

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“I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.”

Want Writing Wells Life Is Literature Minutes Busy Posts Finite Life Is Short Distillation

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“The reason men rule is because women let them.”

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“Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.”

Looks Universe Substance Sellers Best Sellers

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“The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.”

People Reason Pay Stupid Producers Stupid People Stupid Movie

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“Never, ever point out that a woman is eating too much.”

Too Much Eating

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“What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.”

Age Simple Caution

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“While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love.”

Should Fun Love Is Aspire Madly In Love

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“We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.”

People Guy Stuff Five Minutes Industry Theatre Five Minutes Eighty Trailers Movie Industry Fillers

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“What exactly did we learn in kindergarten? Nothing we wouldn't have learned if we;d stayed home. Okay, we learned that sometimes, by the time you get to the bathroom, it's too late.”

Ifs Sometimes Home Late Okay Too Late Bathroom Kindergarten

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“That's really what the mall is all about: money. At the mall the rule is: Credito, ergo sum - I shop, therefore I am.”

Culture Shops Malls

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“Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.”

Life Shame Screws

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About the Author

Born: 1965
Known for: Fiction writer
Quotes: 37

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