"We were that generation called silent, but we……" — Joan Didion
"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, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate."
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Joan Didion
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204 Quotes by Joan Didion
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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are…
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions…
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you…
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position…
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it…
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you…
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one…
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want…
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they…
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Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't…
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and…
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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Well begun is half done.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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