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Very Quotes by Joan Didion
- We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I…
- I lead a very conventional life.
- It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that…
- we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we…
- Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back…
- What does it cost to lose those weeks, that light, the very nights in the year preferred over all others? Can you evade the dying…
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