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From Quotes by Joan Didion
- We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I…
- The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
- To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
- You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.
- A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically…
- Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all…
- It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that…
- prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care…
- People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in…
- 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…
- In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what…
- You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone.…
- It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.
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