"Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly……" — Joan Didion
"Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States."
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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 Cloudless Quotes
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long…
— Yoshida Kenko
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To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas -…
— Charlton Ogburn
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In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on…
— Jonathan Alter
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My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May,
— Martin Amis
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I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
— Horace
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Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment…
— Arthur W. Pink
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We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up…
— Gavin Pretor-Pinney
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Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in…
— Charles Lamb
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As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and…
— Yves Klein
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Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a…
— Tahereh Mafi
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However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a…
— Madame de Stael
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