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- “Grammar is a piano I play by ear.” ― Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations.
- “Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.” ― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking.
- “I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m.
- “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” ― Joan Didion, The White Album.
- “Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.” ― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking.
- “Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death.
- “we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves.
- “I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. ”
- We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Joan Didion. People, Nodding, Attractive.
- I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game? Joan Didion. Mean, Games, Aces.
- The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. Joan Didion. Life, Respect, Self Esteem.
- I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be. Joan Didion. Couple, People, Used.
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- The Quote I Kept on My Monitor For The Entire Year After I Turned 28
“I don’t think anybody feels like they’re a good parent. Or if people think they’re good parents, they ought to think again.” “When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.”
“Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else’s dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.” “As it happens I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one’s self depends upon one...
“Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.”
“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.” “California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky, is wher...
“Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, paradoxically, the denial of time.”
“Joan Baez was a personality before she was entirely a person, and, like anyone to whom that happens, she is in a sense the hapless victim of what others have seen in her, written about her, wanted her to be and not to be.” “It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what...
“During the blue nights you think the end of day will never come. As the blue nights draw to a close (and they will, and they do) you experience an actual chill, an apprehension of illness, at the moment you first notice: the blue light is going, the days are already shortening, the summer is gone.” “I think we are well advised to keep on nodding t...
“I did not want to finish the year because I know that as the days pass, as January becomes February and February becomes summer, certain things will happen. My image of John at the instant of his death will become less immediate, less raw. It will become something that happened in another year.” “A single person is missing for you, and the whole w...
“That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it has counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.” Want to cover your walls with Joan Didion quotes? Of course you do. Find thebest accessor...
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Joan Didion. Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. Joan Didion. You have to pick the places you don't walk away from. Joan Didion. I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it.
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