Joan Didion
American · 1934–2021
American writer known for her literary journalism and memoirs that captured the fractures of American culture with precision and melancholy.
Wikipedia ↗“I closed my eyes and let the sick feeling wash over me, and then I began to feel better.”
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“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.”
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"Why I Write" ↗ (1976)
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
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The White Album ↗ (1979)
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”
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