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✵ 5. prosinec 1934  •  Další jména Ջոան Դիդիոն, 琼·迪迪恩, 瓊·迪迪恩
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Joan Didion citáty a výroky

„Osvobození od očekávání druhých, návrat zpět k sobě - v tom spočívá velká a jedinečná síla sebeúcty.“

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Joan Didion: Citáty anglicky

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”

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Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Zdroj: The Year of Magical Thinking

“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”

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“It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.”

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Joan Didion kniha Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Zdroj: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“I know what the fear is.
The fear is not for what is lost.
What is lost is already in the wall.
What is lost is already behind the locked doors.
The fear is for what is still to be lost.”

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Joan Didion kniha Blue Nights

Zdroj: Blue Nights

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”

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Zdroj: Essays & Conversations

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”

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Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Zdroj: The Year of Magical Thinking

“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”

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

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Zdroj: "On Self-Respect", in Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

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Joan Didion kniha The White Album

Zdroj: "The White Album", in The White Album

“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.”

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Joan Didion kniha The White Album

The White Album
Zdroj: http://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/10/books/didion-calif.html

“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”

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Zdroj: On Self-Respect

“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”

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Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Zdroj: The Year of Magical Thinking

“I closed the box and put it in a closet.
There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”

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Joan Didion Where I Was From

Zdroj: Where I Was From

“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.

Information is control.”

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Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Zdroj: The Year of Magical Thinking

“Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”

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Joan Didion kniha Blue Nights

Zdroj: Blue Nights

“[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.”

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Joan Didion kniha Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Zdroj: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”

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Joan Didion kniha Blue Nights

Zdroj: Blue Nights

“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”

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Joan Didion kniha Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Zdroj: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”

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"On Self-Respect", in Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”

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Joan Didion kniha Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Zdroj: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.”

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Joan Didion kniha Play It as It Lays

Zdroj: Play It as It Lays

“I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.”

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Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Zdroj: The Year of Magical Thinking

“Writers are always selling somebody out.”

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"A Preface", in Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.”

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Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Zdroj: The Year of Magical Thinking

“Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.”

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Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Zdroj: The Year of Magical Thinking