"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."

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Source : Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.91, Zola Books

Joan Didion

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Mastery Quotes

“I think I have changed a lot. People might feel a little unfamiliar with the new me, but this is just who I am. I realised that I just want to be free.”
“It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.”
“You have to have like a bit of amnesia both on the winning side and the losing side of this thing... On the losing side you need to be able to forget a loss to be able to move on and to be successful in your next fight. But on the winning side you need to be able to forget a win so you don't get stuck in this pattern of like, "I'm unstoppable". So there has to be a level of amnesia for a fighter.”
“John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.”
“For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.”
“You can definitely become a victim and let people completely destroy your life.”
“When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.”

Source : Charles Fletcher Dole (1897). “The Coming People”
“The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.”

Source : "An Author and his Image: The Collected Short Pieces". Book by J. P. Donleavy, 1997.

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