"I have always wanted a swimming pool and…" — Joan Didion

"I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one."

— Joan Didion

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204 Quotes by Joan Didion

Joan Didion has 204 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are…
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions…
In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you…
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position…
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it…
My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you…
People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one…
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want…
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they…
Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't…
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and…
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

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I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance. — Kevin Bacon
I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for… — Bryan Adams
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was… — Chester Bennington
I always wanted to be a hairdresser. — David Beckham
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me… — Mary J. Blige
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family. — Bjork
Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece. — Orlando Bloom
I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school. — Christina Aguilera
I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of… — Bill Bryson
I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do. — Sandra Bullock
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was… — Alan Alda
I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike. — Nick Cave

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