Джоан Дидион цитаты

Джоан Дидион — американская писательница, получившая известность благодаря своим романам и литературной журналистике. Её романы и очерки исследуют распад американской нравственности и культурный хаос, а главной авторской темой выступает индивидуальная и социальная разобщенность. Большинство её произведений пронизаны тревогой или страхом. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. Декабрь 1934   •   Другие имена Ջոան Դիդիոն, 琼·迪迪恩, 瓊·迪迪恩
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Джоан Дидион цитаты

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

Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Источник: The Year of Magical Thinking

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”

Источник: Essays & Conversations

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

Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Источник: The Year of Magical Thinking

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

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

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

Joan Didion книга The White Album

Источник: "The White Album", in The White Album

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

Information is control.”

Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Источник: The Year of Magical Thinking

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

Joan Didion книга Blue Nights

Источник: Blue Nights

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

Joan Didion книга Blue Nights

Источник: Blue Nights

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

Joan Didion книга Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Источник: 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.”

Joan Didion книга Play It as It Lays

Источник: Play It as It Lays

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

Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Источник: The Year of Magical Thinking

“Writers are always selling somebody out.”

"A Preface", in Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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

Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Источник: The Year of Magical Thinking

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

Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Источник: The Year of Magical Thinking