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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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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Property
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Before Id written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers – when youve got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other peoples ability to do that. – Joan Didion

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movies
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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 truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we dont even know are available to us. – Michael J. Fox

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Censorship is saying: Im the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine. But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper. – Ai Weiwei

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power

Words derive their power from the original word. – Meister Eckhart

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power

Thank you power is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them – so youve got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past. – Deborah Norville

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power

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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. – Ambrose Bierce

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