"We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not."

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Source : Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

Joan Didion

#People Quotes #Nodding Quotes #Attractive Quotes

“The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.”
“I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.”
“What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy.”
“I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.”
“A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.”
“While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.”
“I would pay to watch Ginobili play.”
“I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.”

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