"You have to pick the places you don't…" — Joan Didion
"You have to pick the places you don't walk away from."
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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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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this…
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People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and…
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I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of…
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
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There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is…
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory.…
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Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
— Bob Beauprez
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we…
— Candice Bergen
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national…
— Wendell Berry
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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