...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Joan Didion
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  1. Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life – is the source from which self-respect springs.

  2. I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

  3. 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.

  4. The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the...

  5. Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

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