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"Writers are always selling somebody out."
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"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."
"Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts."
"But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them."
"After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather."
"I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that."
"Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product."
Explore more quotes by Joan Didion
"Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?"
"The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers."
"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
"We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know."
"I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing."
"In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see."
"He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them."
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
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