Social Virtues Quotes by Joan Didion

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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…
• Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
• In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
• To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
• Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
• My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
• People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing…
• It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…
• Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves…
• Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress…
• New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…
• To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

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