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Few Quotes by Joan Didion
- If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with…
- prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care…
- Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a…
- When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and…
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