"Hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes……" — Joan Didion
"Hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back."
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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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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
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We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against…
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
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A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is…
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Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
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You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of…
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