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Joan Didion, née le 5 décembre 1934 à Sacramento en Californie, États-Unis, est une écrivaine américaine, connue comme journaliste, essayiste et romancière.

Elle est considérée comme une muse et un auteur culte par des écrivains américains tels que Bret Easton Ellis ou Jay McInerney. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. décembre 1934  •  Autres noms Ջոան Դիդիոն, 琼·迪迪恩, 瓊·迪迪恩
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Joan Didion: 48 citations0 J'aime

Joan Didion: Citations en anglais

“One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”

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Joan Didion livre Play It as It Lays

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“We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.”

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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.”

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Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

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“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.”

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Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

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“I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted.”

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Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

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“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.”

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Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

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“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”

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Joan Didion livre Play It as It Lays

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“As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs… The way I write is who I am, or have become…”

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Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

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“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.”

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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.”

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“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?”

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From the novel Run, River

“One thing you will note about shopping-center theory is that you could have thought of it yourself, and a course in it will go a long way toward dispelling the notion that business proceeds from mysteries too recondite for you and me.”

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"On the Mall", in The White Album

“Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.”

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Joan Didion livre Slouching Towards Bethlehem

&quot;The Howard Hughes Underground,&quot; http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=7&amp;sid=e10e8a49-3c75-4cb4-8d00-c35bb5bdf29a@sessionmgr4001 The Saturday Evening Post (23 August 1967) <br class="br"> &quot;7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38,&quot; http://books.google.com/books?id=_pgrUFe9Fh8C&amp;q=%22Americans+are+uneasy+with+their+possessions+guilty+about+power+all+of+which+is+difficult+for+Europeans+to+perceive+because+they+are+themselves+so+truly+materialistic+so+versed+in+the+uses+of+power%22&amp;pg=PA71#v=onepage Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)

“When I talk about pictures in my mind I am talking, quite specifically, about images that shimmer around the edges.”

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"Why I Write" (1975)

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned.”

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"Why I Write" (1975)

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