"I mean maybe I was holding all the……" — Joan Didion

"I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?"

— 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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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if… — William Hazlitt
When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table. — Dean Martin
Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let… — Joseph Sobran
Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains. — Mike Caro
A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand… — Ambrose Bierce
I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match… — Serena Williams
I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search,… — Wes Anderson
It's more and more difficult to get through to your audience with all of the clutter. This is a great… — Bill Rancic
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the… — Eugene Field
I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my… — Jennie Finch
When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of… — Derren Brown
I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who… — Jennifer Egan

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