Joan Didion: Quotes about time

Joan Didion is American writer. Explore interesting quotes on time.
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“Time is the school in which we learn”

Joan Didion

“Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.”

Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

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“I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.”

Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

“What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.”

Joan Didion

“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