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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. – Joan Didion

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Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled. – Joan Didion

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Twentieth Century
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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. – Joan Didion

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Business
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I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. – Joan Didion

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Fear
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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. – Edward Gibbon

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Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over. – Charlize Theron

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power

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. – Toni Morrison

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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. – Cornel West

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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. – Edmund Burke

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