Quotes by Didion, Joan

It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparent >>

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-res >>

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want somet >>

Quotations about Past

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as >>

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not si >>

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock. >>

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan