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Seemed Quotes by Joan Didion
- Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.
- We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,…
- I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.
- I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where…
- Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really…
- To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow…
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