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Joan Didion Quotes


An American author best known for her novels and personalized, creative nonfiction journalistic essays.
Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American author best known for her novels and personalized, creative nonfiction journalistic essays. The disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos upon which her essays comment are explored more fully in her novels, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.

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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is a dissatisfaction with self.

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There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

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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 what I want and what I fear.

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We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

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Most of our platitudes notwithstanding self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here no prettily drawn list of good intentions.

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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land and then is when we are in bad trouble.