"It is easy to see the beginnings of……" — Joan Didion
"It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends."
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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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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people…
— Russell Baker
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Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
— William Throsby Bridges
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
— A. S. Byatt
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I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs…
— Paula Abdul
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Good seasons start with good beginnings.
— Sparky Anderson
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
— Thomas Paine
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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
— Aberjhani
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In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies…
— Louise Erdrich
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a…
— Blaise Pascal
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Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new…
— Amby Burfoot
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New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
— Laozi
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