+ Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Feraz Zeid, June 19, 2023December 12, 2023, Joan Didion, Memories, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Cities, New York, Notion, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ If you aren’t aware of the reader, you’re working in a vacuum. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Vacuums, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried. Feraz Zeid, July 26, 2023December 12, 2023, Joan Didion, Past, Seeds, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Hard, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Manipulate, Outsiders, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ The ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Mastery, Self, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be. Feraz Zeid, June 23, 2023December 12, 2023, Joan Didion, Grief, 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