The Last Love Song Quotes

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,”
― Tracy Daugherty, The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion

“apocalyptic notions,” she once said, thinking of earthquakes, floods, and fires. “However, mixed up with this tolerance for notions in which the world is going to end dramatically is the belief that the world can’t help but get better and better. It’s really hard for me to believe that everything doesn’t improve, because thinking like that was just so much part of being in California.” More deeply, the paradoxes in her writing suggest her real interest is language, its inaccuracies and illusions, the way words imply their opposites, and the ways stories, particularly stories that tell us how to live, get told or don’t. For”
― Tracy Daugherty, The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion