Joan Didion Quotes
I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.
Joan Didion
Quotes to Explore
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
Walter O'Brien
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
Dan Webster
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
F. L. Lucas
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
Karl Pilkington
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
Hannah Arendt
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It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.
Eve Merriam
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I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and trying to rewrite it.
Chuck Klosterman
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A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
Lane Evans
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Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
Charlie Parker
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I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.
Joan Didion