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Joan Didion Quotes about Memories

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Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.

Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.

Joan Didion
Memories, Denial, Only Time
Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.197, Vintage

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Joan Didion
Memories, Nodding, Never Forget
FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jun 24, 2011

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

Joan Didion
Memories, Thinking, Remember
FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 04, 2016

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

Marriage is memory, marriage is time.

Joan Didion
Memories
Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.197, Vintage

You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

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Memories, Past, People
Joan Didion (2011). “Blue Nights”, p.64, Vintage

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

Joan Didion
Memories, Want, Remember
Joan Didion (2012). “Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)”, p.51, Knopf

Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may cut free memories and feelings that we thought had gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.

Joan Didion
Memories, Ocean, Cutting

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