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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. ↗

— Joan Didion

#forget #never #never forget #soon #things

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. ↗

— Joan Didion

#fear #find #i #i see #i write

Fate will find a way. ↗

— Virgil

#find #way #will

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm. ↗

— Joan Didion

#book #constantly #day #every #every day

A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#lot #pay #still #talented #talented actors

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#about #africa #ago #clinton #disappointed

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

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #around #been #before #big

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am. ↗

— Joan Didion

#generally #hadn #i #i am #out

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#except #first #i #just #makes