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> [California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But California in the sense of the West. The old West where Manifest Destiny was an almost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/california-belongs-to-joan-didion-not-the-california-where-everyone/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

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## Other authors on Aviator

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## More by Michiko Kakutani

> [I find it hard to write in the first person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/i-find-it-hard-to-write-in-the-first-person/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

> [I was the kid in class who was afraid to get called on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/i-was-the-kid-in-class-who-was-afraid-to-get-called-on/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

> [“Technology offers the illusion of companionship without the demands of intimacy, and communication without emotional risk, while actually making people feel lonelier and more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/technology-offers-the-illusion-of-companionship-without-the-demands/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

> [One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an inventive gift…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/one-of-my-favorite-things-as-a-critic-was-finding-books-by-new/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

> [President Trump not only lies with astonishing temerity and abandon, but those lies connect into equally false narratives that gin up the worst fears…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/president-trump-not-only-lies-with-astonishing-temerity-and-abandon/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

> [Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/indeed-the-second-plane-is-such-a-weak-risible-and-often/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

> [Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/like-many-people-i-became-increasingly-alarmed-during-the-2016/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

> [California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/california-belongs-to-joan-didion-not-the-california-where-everyone/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

> [If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump - a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and tyrannical impulses,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/if-a-novelist-had-concocted-a-villain-like-trump-a-larger-than-life/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

> [I've always been a news junkie, and an avid reader of newspapers and magazines, and this interest only ramped up during the campaign of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/i-ve-always-been-a-news-junkie-and-an-avid-reader-of-newspapers-and/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

> [With his mendacity and increasingly virulent attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women, the press, the judiciary, the intelligence services, the F.B.I. - any group or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/with-his-mendacity-and-increasingly-virulent-attacks-on-immigrants/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

> [One of the things I wanted to do in 'The Death of Truth' was explore some of the larger social and political dynamics that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/one-of-the-things-i-wanted-to-do-in-the-death-of-truth-was-explore/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

> [The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/the-current-memoir-craze-has-fostered-the-belief-that-confession-is/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

> [I'm not much of a cook. I used to keep books in my gas oven - until someone told me it was a fire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/i-m-not-much-of-a-cook-i-used-to-keep-books-in-my-gas-oven-until/)

[Michiko Kakutani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michiko-kakutani/)

> [My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michiko-kakutani/my-mother-s-family-was-among-the-120-000-people-of-japanese-descent/)

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