Joan Didion - Life Quotes

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

Joan Didion

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

Joan Didion

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?

Joan Didion

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

Joan Didion

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most temporary way.

Joan Didion

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

Joan Didion