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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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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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of 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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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. – Peace Pilgrim

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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. – Maimonides

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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. – Peace Pilgrim

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