Quote by Joan Didion
I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at,

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

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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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

Category:
Water
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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

Category:
Property
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Other Quotes from
Fear
category

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis. – Brad Henry

Category:
Fear

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. – Aleister Crowley

Category:
Fear

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. – Luc de Clapiers

Category:
Fear

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. – Herodotus

Category:
Fear

Random Quotes

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Happiness

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that. – Don Rickles

Category:
Humor

Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God – Eberhard Arnold

Category:
Gifts

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out. – Ellen Ochoa

Category:
Education