Daily Didion

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“I don't know what I think until I write it down.”

Joan Didion

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"You have to pick the places you don't walk away from."

Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer

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

Joan Didion, On Self-Respect

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“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”

Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

Joan Didion, The White Album

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"We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were."

Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook

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"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 Didion, On Keeping a Notebook