Quote by Joan Didion
The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. - Joan Didion

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. – Joan Didion

Other quotes by Joan Didion

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

Category:
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

Category:
Fear
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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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Water
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Other Quotes from
Weather
category

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. – Bill Watterson

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Weather

He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the handle, and dropped in a dollop of honey and cream. He sat by the window, cup in hand, watching the first snow fall. “I am,” he sighed deeply, “contented as a clam. I am a most happy man.” – Ethel Pochocki, Wildflower Tea, 1993

Category:
Weather

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. – Patrick Young

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Weather

Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm. – Terri Guillemets, “The truth of weather,” 2006

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Weather

Random Quotes

Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts. – Edmund Leach

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Food

I would borrow my moms red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown! – Brooke Burns

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mom

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. – Thomas Jefferson

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God

It is for every normal human being to be an artist. It is his divine heritage, every child is an artist. Human society kills it in us before we reach maturity. – Dudley Crafts Watson, 1918

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Art