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Actual Quotes by Joan Didion
- We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I…
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of…
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which…
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- The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running. — Dennis Banks
- Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. — Dave Barry
- I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry
- Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins,… — Jeff Bezos
- It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. — Ambrose Bierce
- Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead… — Ben Affleck
- I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the… — Elayne Boosler
- The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen
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- You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it… — Alton Brown