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Joan Didion Quotes

Joan Didion quotes about life

American Author December 5, 1934

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I offer you a second way of approaching the moment where everything in your life just stops, this one from the actor Robert Duvall: "I exist very nicely between the words 'action' and 'cut.'"And even a third way: "It doesn't present as pain," I once heard an oncological surgeon say of cancer. Joan Didion
Joan Didion quote: "Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to..."
Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go. Joan Didion
Raised to believe that her life would be, as her great-grandmother's was said to have been, one ceaseless round of fixed and settled principles, aims, motives, and activity, she could sometimes think of nothing to do but walk downtown, check out the Bon Marche for clothes she could not afford, buy a cracked crab for dinner and take a taxi home. Joan Didion
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss. Joan Didion
After that he would leave for a while, breaking things as he went, slamming doors to kick them open, picking up decanters to hurl at mirrors, detouring by way of chairs to smash them against the floor. Always when he came back he would sleep in their room, shutting the door against her. Rigid with self-pity she would lie in another room, wishing for the will to leave. Each believed the other a murderer of time, a destroyer of life itself. Joan Didion
Quintana's christening was in 1966, this Christian Dior show was two years later, 1968: 1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the political and cultural life of the United States but they were for women who presented themselves a certain way the same time. It was a way of looking, it was a way of being. It was a period. What became of that way of looking, that way of being, that time, that period? What became of the women smoking cigarettes in their Chanel suits and their... Joan Didion
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? Joan Didion
Joan Didion quote: "Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down..."
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. Joan Didion
Joan Didion quote: "Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant."
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. Joan Didion
I was not going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life reduced to a short story. I was going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life expanded to a novel, and I still do. Joan Didion
Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the blue. I myself placed her ashes in the wall. I myself saw the cathedral doors locked at six. I know what it is I am now experiencing. I know what the frailty is, I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost. You may... Joan Didion
Joan Didion quote: "The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is..."
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. Joan Didion
Joan Didion quote: "I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source..."
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. Joan Didion
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. Joan Didion
Joan Didion quote: "1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the..."
1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the political and cultural life of the United States . . . Joan Didion

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