Quote by Joan Didion
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I th

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? – Joan Didion

Other quotes by Joan Didion

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one – Joan Didion

Category:
Envy / Jealousy
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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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strength
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Other Quotes from
Writing
category

Drink and be filled up. – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000

Category:
Writing

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

Category:
Writing

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. – Sholem Asch

Category:
Writing

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever

Category:
Writing

Random Quotes

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. – Charles Ives

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Hope

No one knows men as such, any more than anyone knows women, and if they do generalise theyre probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one man, yes, or even lots of individual men. – Julie Burchill

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Women

Its cool to go to a place that has posters up and its one night only. It feels more special. – Todd Barry

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cool

Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime? – Marquis De Sade

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Murder