Joan Didion Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

  Joan Didion

  Suicide, Order, Multiple Choice

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 13, 2011

• Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

  Joan Didion

  Time, Memories, Night

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Nov 22, 2014

• We imagine things — that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. ... We have no choice, so we do it.

  Joan Didion

  Choices, Able, Facts

• We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.

  Joan Didion

  Suicide, Multiple Choice, Choices

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.5, Zola Books

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