![]() – The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), which explores grief following the death of her husband ![]() You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. – The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) On loss I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted. There’s a point when you go with what you’ve got. Ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before. The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. ![]() You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from. – Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power (essay originally published in Vogue in 1961) To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. ![]() – Why I Write (essay originally published in the New York Times Book Review in 1976) I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. – The White Album (1979)Ĭharacter – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self-respect springs. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. ![]()
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