"It occurs to me that we allow ourselves……" — Joan Didion

"It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive."

— Joan Didion

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204 Quotes by Joan Didion

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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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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the… — Aristotle
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in… — Chinua Achebe
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher… — Jane Austen
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they… — Teresa of Avila
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow… — Charles Babbage
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. — Richard Bach
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were… — Afrika Bambaataa
I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. — Michael Bay
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things… — Mortimer Adler

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