Joan Didion: Quotes about life

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

Joan Didion

Source: "On Self-Respect", in Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”

Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

“Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.”

Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

“Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?”

Joan Didion

From the novel Run, River