"The wind shows us how close to the edge we are."
"We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget."
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Joan Didion
Author, Essayist
Joan Didion was an influential American writer known for her incisive essays and novels that explore themes of memory, identity, and societal change.
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"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
"To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self."
"We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not."
"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."
"Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember."