"Not much about California, on its own preferred……" — Joan Didion
"Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another."
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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 California Quotes
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I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every…
— Michele Bachmann
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
— Joseph Barbera
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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
— Edward Abbey
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Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California…
— Roseanne Barr
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I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married…
— Roseanne Barr
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California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I…
— Drew Barrymore
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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
— Saul Bellow
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In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything…
— Saul Bellow
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I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We…
— Halle Berry
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Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has…
— Jan Brewer
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We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing…
— Stephen Breyer
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My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
— Dave Brubeck
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