25 Quotations by Joan Didion
- 1. A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it fro ...
- 2. A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the u ...
- 3. A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera ...
- 4. Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europ ...
- 5. California: The west coast of Iowa.
- 6. Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which s ...
- 7. Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
- 8. I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what Ii see and what it means, ...
- 9. It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between wha ...
- 10. Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended a ...
- 11. Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tri ...
- 12. Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies t ...
- 13. Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
- 14. The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soo ...
- 15. The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power fo ...
- 16. The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect sp ...
- 17. There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexua ...
- 18. To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
- 19. To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have ev ...
- 20. Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was ...
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