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Thinking 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,…
- New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining…
- Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind…
- We all survive more than we think we can,
- Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.
- Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.
- I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.
- I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
- I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what…
- 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…
- I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
- When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is…
- I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or…
- I don't know what I think until I write it down.
- The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
- We write to discover what we think.
- Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.
- I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking…
- I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at. What I see and what I fear.
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
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- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams