Joan Didion

The White Album

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  • strangenewemberhas quoted2 years ago
    I did no good works but I tried to keep in touch.
  • lizethohas quoted2 years ago
    In what would probably be the middle of my life I wanted still to believe in the narrative and in the narrative’s intelligibility, but to know that one could change the sense with every cut was to begin to perceive the experience as rather more electrical than ethical.
  • lizethohas quoted2 years ago
    We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the “ideas” with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
  • Alma Santillanahas quoted2 years ago
    I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did
  • Alma Santillanahas quoted2 years ago
    This was an adequate enough performance, as improvisations go
  • Lisa Rowiehas quoted2 years ago
    we tell ourselves stories in order to live.
  • strangenewemberhas quoted2 years ago
    It was hard to surprise me in those years. It was hard to even get my attention. I was absorbed in my intellectualization, my obsessive-compulsive devices, my projection, my reaction-formation, my somatization, and in the transcript of the Ferguson trial.
  • strangenewemberhas quoted2 years ago
    It was a time of my life when I was frequently “named.” I was named godmother to children. I was named lecturer and panelist, colloquist and conferee. I was even named, in 1968, a Los Angeles Times “Woman of the Year,” along with Mrs. Ronald Reagan, the Olympic swimmer Debbie Meyer, and ten other California women who seemed to keep in touch and do good works.
  • strangenewemberhas quoted2 years ago
    We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the “ideas” with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
    Or at least we do for a while.
  • strangenewemberhas quoted2 years ago
    We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
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