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Longer Quotes by Joan Didion
- It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want,…
- I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
- Memories are what you no longer want to remember.
- I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to…
- 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…
- In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what…
- You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone.…
- I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.
More Longer Quotes
- No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world… — Isaac Asimov
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
- To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. — Gaston Bachelard
- I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in… — Douglas Bader
- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
- I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels… — Amy Adams
- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
- Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense… — Stanley Baldwin
- If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. — Alan Ball
- Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be… — J. G. Ballard