"I don't know what I think until I write it down."

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Source : "Joan Didion Survives 'The Year of Magical Thinking'". Interview with Susan Stamberg, www.npr.org. September 30, 2005.

Joan Didion

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.”

Source : William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.643
“Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.”
“I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.”
“We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.”
“It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.”

Source : "$800 million biotech business started in a garage" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.
“No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.”
“Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.”
“The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.”

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