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Joan Didion
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: December 5
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Sacramento
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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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Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.
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A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
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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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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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We are the stories we tell ourselves
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Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.
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I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.
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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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California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.
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Marriage is memory, marriage is time.
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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'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
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Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.
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I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
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Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.
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What does it cost to lose those weeks, that light, the very nights in the year preferred over all others? Can you evade the dying of the brightness? Or do you evade only its warning? Where are you left if you miss the message the blue nights bring?
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If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.
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I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. You’ve got research, you’ve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind of carve it into shape
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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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