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  1. Joan Didion _ On Self-Respect

    To do without self-respect, on the other hand, is to be an unwilling audience of one to an interminable home movie that documents one's failings, both real and imagined, with fresh footage spliced in for each screening.
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  2. Joan Didion _ On Self-Respect

    To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.
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  3. Joan Didion _ On Self-Respect

    Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
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  4. Joan Didion _ On Self-Respect

    Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.
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  5. Joan Didion _ On Self-Respect

    I faced myself that day with the nonplused apprehension of someone who has come across a vampire and has no crucifix at hand.
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