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Joan Didion Quotes

I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game? Picture Quote #1

The fear is for what is still to be lost Picture Quote #1

Writers are only rarely likable Picture Quote #1

I don’t write for catharsis; I have to write to understand Picture Quote #1

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one Picture Quote #1

We all have the same dreams Picture Quote #1

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I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe Picture Quote #1

I lead a very conventional life Picture Quote #1

I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don’t believe that anyone is looking out for me personally Picture Quote #1

Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes Picture Quote #1

That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing Picture Quote #1

Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored Picture Quote #1

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Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren’t Picture Quote #1

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power’s sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one’s own rules Picture Quote #1

Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time Picture Quote #1

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To think of ‘living’ there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not ‘live’ at Xanadu Picture Quote #1

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power’s sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy Picture Quote #1

In many ways, writing is the act of saying ‘I,’ of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, ‘Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.’ It’s an aggressive, even a hostile act Picture Quote #1

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We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience Picture Quote #1

I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn’t been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness Picture Quote #1

I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man’s soul Picture Quote #1

A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye Picture Quote #1

I can’t imagine writing if I didn’t have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience Picture Quote #1

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else’s dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream Picture Quote #1

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Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you’re the kind of person who’s going to have that feeling about a dog you’re definitely going to have that about a child Picture Quote #1

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control Picture Quote #1

The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black Picture Quote #1

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. I think biographies are very urgent to children Picture Quote #1

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself Picture Quote #1

I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood Picture Quote #1

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I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game? (Joan Didion Quotes) The fear is for what is still to be lost (Joan Didion Quotes) Writers are only rarely likable (Joan Didion Quotes) I don’t write for catharsis; I have to write to understand (Joan Didion Quotes) I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one (Joan Didion Quotes) We all have the same dreams (Joan Didion Quotes) I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe (Joan Didion Quotes) I lead a very conventional life (Joan Didion Quotes) I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don’t believe that anyone is looking out for me personally (Joan Didion Quotes) Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes (Joan Didion Quotes) That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing (Joan Didion Quotes) Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored (Joan Didion Quotes) Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren’t (Joan Didion Quotes) The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power’s sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one’s own rules (Joan Didion Quotes) Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time (Joan Didion Quotes) New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To think of ‘living’ there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not ‘live’ at Xanadu (Joan Didion Quotes) The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power’s sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy (Joan Didion Quotes) In many ways, writing is the act of saying ‘I,’ of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, ‘Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.’ It’s an aggressive, even a hostile act (Joan Didion Quotes) We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience. (Joan Didion Quotes) I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn’t been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness. (Joan Didion Quotes) I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man’s soul. (Joan Didion Quotes) A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. (Joan Didion Quotes) I can’t imagine writing if I didn’t have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience. (Joan Didion Quotes) Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else’s dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream. (Joan Didion Quotes) Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you’re the kind of person who’s going to have that feeling about a dog you’re definitely going to have that about a child. (Joan Didion Quotes) The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control. (Joan Didion Quotes) The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black. (Joan Didion Quotes) I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. I think biographies are very urgent to children. (Joan Didion Quotes) New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. (Joan Didion Quotes) I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood. (Joan Didion Quotes)

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