Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline, the sense that one lives by doing things one does not particularly want to do, by putting fears and doubts to one side, by weighing immediate comforts against the possibility of larger, even intangible, comforts.

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"I don’t know what I think until I write it down."

- Joan Didion

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"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."

- Joan Didion

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"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."

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"I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be."

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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."

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