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Joan Didion Quotes
«I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
entirely, fear, find out, looking, looking at, means, out, see, thinking, want, write
«The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Responsibility
| Keywords:
for one, responsibility, self-respecting, self respect, source, springs, The Source, willingness
«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.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
claims, obsessively, radically, remade, remakes, remaking, remembers, renders, shapes, wrench, wrenches, wrenching
«To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Jealousy
| Keywords:
cure, dissatisfaction, jealousies, jealousy
«We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
advised, all too, amends, attractive, betrayed, deserted, hammering, keep on, nodding, too soon, turn up, unannounced, well-advised
«To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
constitutes, discriminate, discriminated, discriminates, discriminating, incapable, indifferent, intrinsic, locked, paradoxically, potentially, self respect
«To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Great Expectations, self respect, singular, singulars
«Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Grammar
| Keywords:
by ear, grammar, piano, power play