Joan Didion
American Essayist
Lived from: 1934 - 2021
Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 5 december 1934 Died: 23 december 2021
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Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
Faceboek (2014)― Joan Didion -
Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.
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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.
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That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.
The White Album (1979) 213― Joan Didion -
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
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The fear is for what is still to be lost.
Blue Nights (2012) 134― Joan Didion -
The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.
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The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.
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The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 57― Joan Didion -
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 157― Joan Didion -
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
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There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
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Time is the school in which we learn.
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108― Joan Didion -
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
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Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
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Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
Faceboek (2011)― Joan Didion -
We all survive more than we think we can.
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We are the stories we tell ourselves.
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