"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."

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Source : FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 03, 2011

Joan Didion

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.”
“Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero.”
“Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap.”

Source : George Sampson (2013). “Seven Essays”, p.67, Cambridge University Press
“Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.”
“The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes,”
“The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free”
“Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.”
“So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.”

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