"Innocence ends when one is stripped of the……" — Joan Didion

"Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself."

— Joan Didion

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204 Quotes by Joan Didion

Joan Didion has 204 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are…
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions…
In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you…
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position…
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it…
My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you…
People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one…
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want…
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they…
Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't…
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and…
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

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More Delusion Quotes

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. — Ambrose Bierce
When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and… — Jack Black
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. — Ludwig Borne
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. — Edmund Burke
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of… — Jimmy Carter
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion. — Kim Cattrall
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities… — Alan Barth
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done… — Bertrand Russell
When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of… — Edward McKendree Bounds

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