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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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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
— Saint Augustine
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably…
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take…
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
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The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be…
— Blaise Pascal
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Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one…
— John C. Maxwell
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It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem…
— William Hazlitt
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There's no one without significant creative potential.
— Howard G. Hendricks
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Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one…
— Frank Sinatra
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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough…
— Luigi Pirandello
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I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes…
— Donna Fargo
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