Joan Didion Quotes

We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.

Joan Didion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 5, 1934

Topics

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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

John Maynard Keynes

FutureTimeIgnoranceDarkDefeat

I do love history. I loved learning about wars and things in school.

Matt Lanter

LoveLearningHistorySchoolLoved

I broke my leg is all I did. I didn't break my brain.

Tony Stewart

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The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

Tracy Kidder

LearningWritingDoneWriteRight

This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition.

Tom Colicchio

SchoolPeopleLunchEatingFatDiet

I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests; I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby; and my favorite meal is still the Cobb salad in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Michael Korda

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My first sex scene - and it was with myself.

Judge Reinhold

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Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

Dean Wareham

SuccessBusinessMusicUglyYou

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Chuck Palahniuk

GreatTimeKingMoreStorytelling

Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

Anne Hull

ParadiseFloridaRuralCitrusSince

On what possible basis would I want to stop someone from buying BHS if I had tried to save it?

Philip Green

SomeoneStopWantPossibleBuying

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

Thomas Frank

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