"Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends."

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Source : Joan Didion (2009). “The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play”, p.4, Vintage

Joan Didion

#Life Quotes #Dinner Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Love yourself down to the bone, down to the roof of your mouth. Leave no stone unturned, no cell unwanted. Love down to the blood no matter how fast it boils.”
“For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm by a friend, at F-Space in Santa Ana, California. Sliced cows and surgically altering one's own face is aftershock art.”
“The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai...”
“It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of a film in a sentence or two.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”
“The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.”
“Baking may be regarded as a science, but it's the chemistry between the ingredients and the cook that gives desserts life. Baking is done out of love, to share with family and friends, to see them smile.”
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstitions and darkness.”

Source : "A Disturbing 1995 Prediction by Carl Sagan Accurately Describes America of Today" by PAUL RATNER, bigthink.com.

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