+ We write to discover what we think. Feraz Zeid, September 1, 2023December 24, 2023, Joan Didion, Writing, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Happened, Levels, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Afternoon, Sky, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Respect, Self, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ When the ground starts moving, all bets are off. Feraz Zeid, August 26, 2023December 24, 2023, Joan Didion, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joan Didion, Music, Power, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left. Feraz Zeid, July 30, 2023December 12, 2023, Joan Didion, Dying, Left, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ We are the stories we tell ourselves Feraz Zeid, September 4, 2023December 24, 2023, Joan Didion, Stories, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France