« All Cross Purposes Quotes
·
Joan Didion's Page
Cross Purposes Quotes by Joan Didion
1 Cross Purposes quote by Joan Didion
More Quotes by Joan Didion
Joan Didion has 206 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that…
-
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
-
In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
-
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
-
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
-
My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
-
People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing…
-
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…
-
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves…
-
Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress…
-
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…
-
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
See all 206 quotes by Joan Didion »
More Cross Purposes Quotes
Popular Cross Purposes quotes from across the collection:
-
Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as…
— Leigh Brackett
-
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;…
— Wilfred Trotter
-
The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule…
— Henry Grady Weaver
-
It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to…
— Abraham Lincoln
-
Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments,…
— Jean Liedloff
-
We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society…
— Jean Baudrillard
-
Anger is an alarm system, signaling the presence of nothing more than fear. It tells us we are working at cross-purposes to…
— Jesse D. Jennings
-
It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with…
— Indira Gandhi
-
Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve…
— Joan Didion
-
Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn’t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where…
— Richard Siken
-
Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is…
— James Gleick
See all Cross Purposes Quotes »
Browse Joan Didion Quotes by Category