"Any true morality is the diametric opposite of self-righteousness - the very thing that so often masquerades for morality. What think often as our morality is indeed a “monstrous perversion” of our ego.”
themarginalian.org/2016/12/05/joa…
themarginalian.org/2016/12/05/joa…
Didion on Hollywood liberals;
“The public life of liberal Hollywood comprises a kind of dictatorship of good intentions, a social contract in which actual and irreconcilable disagreement is as taboo as failure or bad teeth.”
“The public life of liberal Hollywood comprises a kind of dictatorship of good intentions, a social contract in which actual and irreconcilable disagreement is as taboo as failure or bad teeth.”
Joan Didion on Self-Respect:
"the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life.
To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent."
"the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life.
To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent."
Joan Didion also offers a soul-stirring meditation on grief in all its unimaginable dimensions.
Didion on the passage of time:
"Time passes.
Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember."
"Time passes.
Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember."
When asked what you most deplore in yourself?
This was several weeks before her husband died of a heart attack while her only daughter lay comatose in the ICU.
This was several weeks before her husband died of a heart attack while her only daughter lay comatose in the ICU.
~ from an obituary published in the New York Times.
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