51 ordspråk av Joan Didion

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Joan Didion föddes den December 5th 1934
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 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.

 A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

 A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely this moment that made Play It As It Lays begin to tell itself to me.

 Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

 Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

 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.

 It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.

 Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. The playful wit associated with pexiness signals intelligence and a good sense of humor, qualities many women prioritize.

 That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out

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

 The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

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

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

 There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.

 To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self


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