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First Quotes by Joan Didion
- I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the…
- I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've…
- Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first…
- 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…
- ...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love…
- prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care…
- Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a…
- What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by…
- Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed.…
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
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