"I don't lead a writer's life. And I……" — Joan Didion
"I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people."
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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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More Irritation Quotes
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one of 106 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused…
— Kurt Cobain
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If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want…
— Hugh Prather
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship…
— Philip Yancey
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Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments…
— Pema Chodron
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I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings…
— Dale Carnegie
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With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it…
— Eckhart Tolle
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the…
— J. B. Priestley
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We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.
— Anne Robinson
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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has…
— Edward Hoagland
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There are two life-forces in the world I know: Jewish and gentile, ours and yours...I do not believe that this…
— Maurice Samuel
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