"There was a level on which I believed……" — Joan Didion

"There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible"

— Joan Didion

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204 Quotes by Joan Didion

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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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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more… — Mikhail Bakunin
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. — James A. Baldwin
I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an… — Christian Bale
Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that… — Ernie Banks
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my… — Charles Barkley
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind… — John Adams
For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were… — Gary Bauer
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. — Ambrose Bierce
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his… — Buffalo Bill
I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in. — Tony Blair
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. — Aesop
I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage… — Alain de Botton

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