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Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

~Joan Didion

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Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

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

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Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

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

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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

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Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

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The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

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

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Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 5th, 1934

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