Joan Didion
American · 1934–2021
American writer known for her literary journalism and memoirs that captured the fractures of American culture with precision and melancholy.
Wikipedia ↗“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.”
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“I closed my eyes and let the sick feeling wash over me, and then I began to feel better.”
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“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.”
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“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 that he remakes it in his own image.”
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
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“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”
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