Quote by Joan Didion
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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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. – 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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Strength is one of those things youre supposed to have. You dont feel that you have it at the time youre going through it. – Joan Didion

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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. – Frederick Douglass

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Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didnt have any creative power, nothing. I dont know that person any more. – Gwen Stefani

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Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. – Andrea Dworkin

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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. – Calvin Coolidge

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Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. – Virgil

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There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me. – Adam Levine

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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen. – John Updike

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