"We live entirely, especially if we are writers,……" — Joan Didion
"We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images."
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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 Disparate Quotes
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Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is…
— Pat Summitt
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Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea…
— Robert Winston
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Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on…
— Vladimir Putin
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I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have…
— Jenji Kohan
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I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider…
— Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger
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We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be…
— Marjorie Garber
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If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those…
— Deepak Chopra
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I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of…
— Martin Mull
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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions…
— Jared Diamond
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Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than…
— David Pilbeam
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The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M.…
— Terryl L. Givens
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