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Joan Didion Quotes

Joan Didion quotes about personality

American Author December 5, 1934

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quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had... Joan Didion
Joan Didion quote: "A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty."
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. Joan Didion
I am not much engaged by the problems of what you might call our day but I am burdened by the particular, the mad person who writes me a letter. It is no longer necessary for them even to write me. I know when someone is thinking of me. I learn to deal with this. Joan Didion
Joan Didion quote: "I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't..."
I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally. Joan Didion
Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces. Joan Didion

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