Best Joan Didion Wisdom
- I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. Broken
- We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select… Choices
- Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really… Aspect
- I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking… Ask
- It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento. Anybody
- A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and… Actions
- Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another. California
- The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect… Amount
- The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way. Apparent
- The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same… Annual
- A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. Available
- When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and… Cold
- New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining… All
- You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line. Focus
- I never think people are too careful with me. Careful
- It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent. Already Become
- 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.… Active
- To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow… Ambiguities
- Call me the author. Author
- Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels dance on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never… Analysis
- In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box… Big
- It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was… Academic
- Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed.… Always Failed
- Nothing is critic-proof. Critic
- 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
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