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Things Quotes by Joan Didion
- Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may…
- We imagine things — that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. ... We have no choice, so we do…
- The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it
- It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.
- I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.
- We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
- One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't…
- Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.
- That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact…
- Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is…
- California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled…
- Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever…
- We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but…
- The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in…
- 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.…
- Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment…
- We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered…
- The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal…
- The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle