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LucyJoan Didion is an American author whose writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the '60s and the Hollywood lifestyle. Her work often concentrated on the subtext of political and social rhetoric. In 2005, she won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking. She later adapted the book into a play, which premiered on Broadway in 2007. In 2017, Didion was profiled in the Netflix documentary The Center Will Not Hold, directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. - Joan Didion

I am what I am. To look for reasons is beside the point. - Joan Didion

I have come to see, we know not the smallest fraction of what there is to know. - Joan Didion

Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control. - Joan Didion

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember. - Joan Didion

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. - Joan Didion

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. - Joan Didion

You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from. - Joan Didion

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. - Joan Didion

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control. - 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

The ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language. - Joan Didion

To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. - Joan Didion

I’m just telling you to live in [the world.] Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. - Joan Didion

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