Joan Didion Light Quotations
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- Rumi
- Paulo Coelho
- Rajneesh
- William Shakespeare
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Marianne Williamson
- John Milton
- Victor Hugo
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Pope Francis
- Carl Jung
- Cassandra Clare
- Charles Dickens
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- J R R Tolkien
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Saint Augustine
- Charles Spurgeon
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Daughter Quotes
I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where she had been. One of the vast O’Keeffe ‘Sky Above Clouds’ canvases floated over the back stairs in the Chicago Art Institute that day, dominating what seemed to be several stories of empty light, and my daughter looked at it once, ran to the landing, and kept on looking. "Who drew it," she whispered after a while. I told her. "I need to talk to her," she said finally.
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Children Quotes
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval as a child automatically guaranteed me not only Phi Beta Kappa keys but happiness, honor, and the love of a good man; lost a certain touching faith in the totem power of good manners, clean hair, and a proven competence on the Stanford-Binet scale. To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the non-plused apprehension of someone who has come across a vampire and has no crucifix at hand.
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Writing Quotes
It occurs to me as I write that this "white light," usually presented dippily (evidence of afterlife, higher power), is in fact precisely consistent with the oxygen deficit that occurs as blood flow to the brain decreases. "Everything went white," those whose blood pressure has dropped say of the instant before they faint.