"To cure jealousy is to see it for……" — Joan Didion
"To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one"
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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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I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super…
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As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's…
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Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the…
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I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
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I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
— Kelly Clarkson
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The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet,…
— Clement of Alexandria
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which…
— Margaret Mead
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Damn where my roof just go? Top slipped off like Janet at the Super Bowl.
— Drake
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On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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When I go to one of those singles dating parties I believe myself to be a bowl of fruit. When…
— Amanda Holden
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I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or…
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