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Joan Didion
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned. All I know about grammar is its infinite power. To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed. Many people know about camera angles now, but not so many know about sentences. The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive. The picture tells you how to arrange the words and the arrangement of the words tells you, or tells me, what’s going on in the picture. Nota bene.

It tells you.
You don’t tell it.”
Joan Didion

Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Mapmaker mapmaker
make me a map

one to one scale,
without a single gap.

Map every rock,
every thought, every tree

and erase all the territory.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

Jennifer  Brown
“People hate. That's our reality.”
Jennifer Brown, Hate List

Ava Dellaira
“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons that we have poetry.”
Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

Ava Dellaira
“The thing about traditions is that they hold up the shape of your memory.”
Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

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