Inspiring Joan Didion Quotes

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1. middlemarch +22 March 9, 2015 7:51 pm

   “California doesn’t remind me of the apocalypse at all” —> tattooing this on my forehead would probably be a bit much, but dang it if I don’t want to.

2. bocadelperro +9 March 9, 2015 7:52 pm

   I can’t express my love for this in any other way, except by saying, thank you thank you thank you.

3. britomartian +49 March 9, 2015 7:58 pm

   Thanks for reminding me that I need to get cracking on my sure-to-be-awesome paper “Baby Just Say Yes: The Influence of Taylor Swift Upon Joan Didion.”

4. jhsaxena +21 March 9, 2015 8:10 pm

   “I didn’t really notice the ocean why do you ask?”

   1. middlemarch +13 March 9, 2015 8:18 pm

      “California is only 6 hours by plane from New York, and it’s no big deal.”

5. Jaya March 9, 2015 8:10 pm

   "I didn't really notice the ocean why do you ask?"

6. scopypdx +13 March 9, 2015 8:59 pm

   This is me, swallowing my pride
   Here on this island in the middle of the Pacific
   In lieu of filing for divorce

7. scopeypdx March 9, 2015 8:59 pm

   This is me, swallowing my pride
   Here on this island in the middle of the Pacific
   In lieu of filing for divorce

8. mizchalmers +16 March 9, 2015 9:09 pm

   My marriage is going great

9. simoneblatt +10 March 9, 2015 10:23 pm

   Nothing poetic about dry hot weather srsly

   1. LeastBittern +5 March 10, 2015 12:34 am

      In the winter it’s often cool and damp! Cool-ish.

10. castles in the air March 9, 2015 10:23 pm

    Nothing poetic about dry hot weather srsly

11. LeastBittern +13 March 9, 2015 11:36 pm

    California’s pretensions to normal weather died when Joan Didion did. Etsy and Pinterest and all our lifestyle blogs are a powerful Jungian groundswell attempt to recapture her witchy control over the elements so that we do not slowly desiccate into nothing. Someday we’ll find the right way of arranging eggs or matching flowers to the curtains so that the rain will come again.

    1. shalalah +15 March 10, 2015 1:04 pm

       joan didion has not died?

12. tututudo +3 March 10, 2015 1:42 am

    “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

13. Charlotte +5 March 10, 2015 1:46 am

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