Joan Didion Quotes
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Joan Didion
Quotes to Explore
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A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
Nancy Kress
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
Viggo Mortensen
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
L.A. Reid
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I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.
Barry Marshall
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If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
Jack Dunphy
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When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.
Canelo Alvarez
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I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
Edgar Ramirez
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I knew what it was at last-the visible manifestation of my will. My power, inherited from my god ancestors and distilled through generations of humanity, given shape and energy and potential. That was all magic was, really, in the end. Possibility. With it I could create anything, provided I believed.
N. K. Jemisin
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For every laugh, there should be a tear.
Walt Disney
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I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.
Iain Banks
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
Ansel Adams
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I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
Brian Wilson