April 12, 2012

Top 5 quotes by Joan Didion

When I'm near the end of a book, I need to sleep in the same room with it.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one's sister and a stranger in a pink hat seen once and admired on the corner of 55th and Madison-as well as oneself, mysteriously improved.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

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