"Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what……" — Joan Didion

"Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember."

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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The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it,… — Charles Dudley Warner
Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but… — Sun Tzu
The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these… — Mordechai Anielewicz
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that… — Edward Sapir
The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails. — Anton Szandor LaVey
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one… — Morarji Desai
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankinds focus on conquering our… — Vanna Bonta
As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward;… — Laozi
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing,… — William Arthur Ward
Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but… — Sun Tzu
When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self.… — Mooji
The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he… — John Kessel

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