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Tell Quotes by Joan Didion
- Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants…
- A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in…
- What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness…
- Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed…
- You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but…
- Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind…
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
- But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place…
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of…
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which…
- Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels dance on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never…
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- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
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- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden