Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go. - Joan Didion
There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go.
- Joan Didion
We are the stories we tell ourselves - Joan Didion
We are the stories we tell ourselves
The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language. - Joan Didion
The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness program or whatever it… - Joan Didion
What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness program or whatever it…
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. - Joan Didion
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. - Joan Didion
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
You have to pick the places you don't walk away from. - Joan Didion
You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.
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. - Joan Didion
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.
I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be - Joan Didion
I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be
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