"To those of us who remained committed mainly……" — Joan Didion
"To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism."
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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 Ambiguities Quotes
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Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve…
— Violet Trefusis
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It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often…
— Manu Joseph
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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
— Banana Yoshimoto
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...I am much better now at ambiguities.
— Saul Bellow
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar…
— J. G. Ballard
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The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
— Scott Turow
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The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified…
— Ali Larijani
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The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost…
— Marilyn Hacker
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
— Herman Melville
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have…
— Bertrand Russell
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If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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