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Marriage is memory, marriage is time.

Joan Didion

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Joan Didion
Age: 89
Born: 1934
Born: December 5
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Sacramento
California
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The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.
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Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
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I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
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I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
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I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.
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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
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Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.
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any compulsion tries to justify itself.
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I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed.
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We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
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In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.
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