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Joan Didion
Age: 89
Born: 1934
Born: December 5
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Sacramento
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I was relying on a kind of natural transition - the transitions made by someone who is slightly deranged.
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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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Anything worth having has its price.
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I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't be able to write anymore, so I thought I'd go back to the typewriter. But you couldn't go back to the typewriter after using the computer.
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I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.
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I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.
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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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It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.
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I've always been fascinated with marine geography and how deep things are. I was spellbound by the tsunami, for example, by the actual maps. There is just something about the unseen bottom of the sea that has always fascinated me, how deep is it.
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You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.
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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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We imagine things — that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. ... We have no choice, so we do it.
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Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States.
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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
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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 live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.
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I wanted to be an oceanographer, actually. It's a way of going underwater. I've always been interested in how deep it was, you know.
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