"My own fantasies of what life would be……" — Joan Didion

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended… - Joan Didion

"My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular."

— 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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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its… — J. G. Ballard
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a… — Orlando Bloom
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment… — Anthony Bourdain
If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle. — Marlon Brando
I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years… — Nicolas Cage
I think that I am the luckiest cat on the planet and I'm living out my own dreams and fantasies… — Hugh Hefner
The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities. — Peter Alliss
Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies. — Michel de Montaigne
Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.... — Nicolas Chamfort
It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good… — Mira Sorvino
Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so… — William Shakespeare
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as… — J M Coetzee

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