“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
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Joan Didion: Citations en anglais
Joan Didion livre Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
Source: Essays & Conversations
“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
Source: "On Self-Respect", in Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
Joan Didion livre The White Album
Source: "The White Album", in The White Album
Joan Didion livre The White Album
The White Album
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/10/books/didion-calif.html
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“I closed the box and put it in a closet.
There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”
Joan Didion Where I Was From
Source: Where I Was From
“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.
Information is control.”
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”
Joan Didion livre Blue Nights
Source: Blue Nights
Joan Didion livre Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”
Joan Didion livre Blue Nights
Source: Blue Nights
“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”
Joan Didion livre Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”
"On Self-Respect", in Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion livre Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.”
Joan Didion livre Play It as It Lays
Source: Play It as It Lays
“I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.”
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“Writers are always selling somebody out.”
"A Preface", in Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.”
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
