"The future always looks good in the golden……" — Joan Didion

"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."

— 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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More Always Looks Quotes

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Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative.… — Helena Bonham Carter
The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward. — Oscar de la Renta
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe. — Robert Boyle
Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example,… — Jay Leno
Gwyneth Paltrow -- she always looks like she's about to cry. I wish someone would just kick her and get… — Unknown Author
The life of a sannyasin should be a life of no expectations. And then every moment is such a bliss,… — Rajneesh
God always looks after the fools and — and the United States. — Otto von Bismarck
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. — Unknown Author
I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple… — Jimmy Page
Disruption on the first day always looks like a toy… — Steve Blank
Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward. — E. Lynn Harris

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