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Anything worth having has its price.

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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I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.
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It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.
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I myself have always found that if I examine something, it's less scary. I grew up in the West, and we always had this theory that if you saw - if you kept the snake in your eye line, the snake wasn't going to bite you. And that's kind of the way I feel about confronting pain. I want to know where it is.
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There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.
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We all survive more than we think we can.
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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.
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I lead a very conventional life.
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What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.
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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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Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.
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We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.
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Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.
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My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.
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Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. 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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Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.
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If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.
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[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.
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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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