Joan Didion frases e citações
Joan Didion: Frases em inglês
“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
Fonte: The Year of Magical Thinking
“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
Fonte: The Year of Magical Thinking
Fonte: "On Self-Respect", in Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
Fonte: "The White Album", in The White Album
The White Album
Fonte: http://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/10/books/didion-calif.html
“I closed the box and put it in a closet.
There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”
Fonte: Where I Was From
“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.
Information is control.”
Fonte: The Year of Magical Thinking
“Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”
Fonte: Blue Nights
“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”
Fonte: Blue Nights
“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”
Fonte: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”
"On Self-Respect", in Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.”
Fonte: Play It as It Lays
“I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.”
Fonte: The Year of Magical Thinking
“It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.”
Fonte: The Year of Magical Thinking