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Famous Joan Didion Quotes
“The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.”
“Marriage is memory, marriage is time.”
“Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?”
“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”
“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.”
“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”
“The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.”
“Memories are what you no longer want to remember.”
“My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.”
“I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.”
“I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.”
“I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.”
“Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.”
“I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be”
“The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up.”