We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Joan DidionStichwörter: reading storytelling
Time is the school in which we learn.
Joan DidionInnocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
Joan DidionStichwörter: innocence disillusionment self-acceptance
I think 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 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.
Joan DidionThat was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.
Joan DidionWhat makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.
Joan DidionCharacter — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan DidionStichwörter: life self-respect responsibility character
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
Joan DidionBut the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place reclaimed by the weather where a woman plays an organ to stop the wind's whining and an old man plays ball with a dog named Duke. I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay.
Joan DidionTime is the school in which we learn
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