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Upon Quotes by Joan Didion
- Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind."
- If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with…
- We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of…
- 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…
- The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
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- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
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