"Grammar is a piano I play by ear." — Joan Didion
"Grammar is a piano I play by ear."
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Joan Didion
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204 Quotes by Joan Didion
Joan Didion has 204 quotes on this site.
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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are…
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions…
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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…
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position…
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it…
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you…
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one…
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want…
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they…
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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…
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and…
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise…
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
— John Adams
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
— Mario Batali
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves…
— Thomas Beecham
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Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all…
— Robert Benchley
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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down…
— Mary J. Blige
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To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
— Andrea Bocelli
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
— William Jennings Bryan
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
— Samuel Butler
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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it…
— Maria Callas
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