"Strength is one of those things you’re supposed to have. You don’t feel that you have it at the time you’re going through it."
― Joan Didion
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Strength
More From Joan Didion
- "Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up."
- "Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power."
- "Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power."
More In Strength
- "Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."― Salvador Dali
- "There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one’s anonymity."― John Knowles
- "First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds."― William Bartram