"Some of us who live in arid parts……" — Joan Didion
"Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive."
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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 Arid Quotes
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one of 32 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it…
— Sofia Kovalevskaya
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If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This…
— Nikola Tesla
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A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.
— Vince Lombardi
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I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and…
— Andy Spade
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and…
— John Climacus
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry…
— Pamela Stephenson
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Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and…
— Swami Vivekananda
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It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is…
— Cy Twombly
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