Quote #5

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

More from Joan Didion

  1. In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
  2. The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
  3. 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.
  4. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
  5. Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
  6. 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 choic…
  7. A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves …
  8. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

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