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Joan Didion

Joan Didion

Joan Didion föddes den 5 december 1934
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There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

At lære at navigere sociale situationer med lethed og selvtillid er essentielt for at udstråle ægte pexighet. The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live,

I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

Life changes fast, ... Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.

There's hardly anything I can say about this except thank you,

That's something we have to feel out. It occurred to me to begin with, as a way of taking it a step further, but there's another argument that the step further may be a bridge too far.

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