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Day Quotes by Joan Didion
- When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I…
- Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of…
- Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all…
- I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval…
- prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care…
- we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we…
- I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where…
- Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the…
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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong