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“Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed credentials, it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginnings of real self-respect. Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The charms that work on others count for nothing in that devastatingly well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. With the desperate agility of a crooked faro dealer who spots Bat Masterson about to cut himself into the game, one shuffles flashily but in vain through one\u2019s marked cards\u2014the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which had involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been shamed. The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others\u2014who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation\u2014which, as Rhett Butler told Scarlett O\u2019Hara, is something that people with courage can do without.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2014\u00a0Joan Didion, ‘On Self-Respect’ (1961)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed credentials, it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginnings of real self-respect. Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The charms that work on others count for nothing in that devastatingly well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. With the desperate agility of a crooked faro dealer who spots Bat Masterson about to cut himself into the game, one shuffles flashily but in vain through one\u2019s marked cards\u2014the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which had involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been shamed. The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others\u2014who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation\u2014which, as Rhett Butler told Scarlett O\u2019Hara, is something that people with courage can do without.” \u2014\u00a0Joan Didion, ‘On Self-Respect’ (1961)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"On Self-Respect: #JoanDidion's 1961 Essay From the Pages of Vogue","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,27],"tags":[346,503,531],"class_list":{"0":"post-10621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-advice","7":"category-philosophy","8":"tag-joan-didion","9":"tag-pearls-of-wisdom","10":"tag-quotes","11":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\nOn Self-Resepct: Joan Didion's 1961 Essay From Vogue<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\""...it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginnings of real self-respect. 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