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Joan Didion has 206 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that…
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing…
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves…
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Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress…
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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A renowned genius once asked a student, "What are you watching when you sit on a hillside in the late afternoon as…
— Jeremy Kagan
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This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of…
— Susan Hill
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Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I…
— Perry Como
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Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon…
— Peter Lik
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In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a…
— Robert Breault
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Sleeping like an internet person takes commitment, it all starts in the late afternoon.
— Troye Sivan
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During the late afternoon and early evening there is a specific dimension that interconnects with our physical world. This particular dimension can…
— Frederick Lenz
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Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.
— Joan Didion
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable.…
— Neil Gaiman
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