Best Joan Didion Lines
- Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever… Adolescence
- 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… All
- I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where… Afternoon
- 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… Ability
- I don't know what I think until I write it down. Down
- We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but… Always Done
- To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the… Assign
- [O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary… All
- I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose. Box
- Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control. Control
- As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I… Artificial
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which… Actual
- Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't… Another Thing
- The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language. Ability
- The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in… Accidentally
- When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it. Book
- We write to discover what we think. Discover
- What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by… All
- I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. Alive
- Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time. Denial
- Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back… Act
- Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere Business
- Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone. Alone
- I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game? Aces
- 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… Fact
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