"One of the things that happens to people……" — Joan Didion
"One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense."
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Joan Didion
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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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North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.
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I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded…
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I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie…
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I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever…
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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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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
— Lynda Barry
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
— Marion Barry
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