599 Quotes by Joan Didion
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Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean love in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again.
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Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
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I think we are all well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.
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She had to have a telephone. There was no one to whom she wanted to talk but she had to have a telephone.
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California is a place where...the mind is troubled by some...suspicion that things had better work here, because here,beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent
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