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“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.” ~ Joan Didion.

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” ~ Joan Didion.

“Anything worth having has its price.” ~ Joan Didion.

“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.” ~ 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.” ~ Joan Didion.

“We all survive more than we think we can.” ~ Joan Didion.

“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.” ~ Joan Didion.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.” ~ Joan Didion What is lost is already behind the locked doors. Take chances, make your own work, take pride in it. I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t believe progress is necessarily part of the package.

Throw yourself out into the convulsions of the world. I want to tell you just to live in the mess. “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 is that you might use to try to control the world by closing it out.“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.” ~ Joan Didion.“We are the stories we tell ourselves” ~ 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.” ~ Joan Didion.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.“I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be” ~ Joan Didion.“There’s a point when you go with what you’ve got.“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” ~ Joan Didion.