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The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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.
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
Writers are always selling somebody out.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from.
-Joan Didion