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"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." — Joan Didion
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"There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise." — Joan Didion
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"Life changes fast, ... Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." — Joan Didion
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"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?" — Joan Didion
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"I'm not sure I would have anyway, ... If I had been writing it at the time she died, that would have become part of it. It was about a specific period of going crazy and getting over it." — Joan Didion
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"Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power." — Joan Didion
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"There's hardly anything I can say about this except thank you," — Joan Didion
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"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference." — Joan Didion
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"That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out" — Joan Didion
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"There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible." — Joan Didion
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"Call me the author." — Joan Didion
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"The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream." — Joan Didion
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"Writers are always selling somebody out." — Joan Didion
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"We tell ourselves stories," — Joan Didion
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"The Year of Magical Thinking," — Joan Didion
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"Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price." — Joan Didion
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"Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled." — Joan Didion
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"We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget." — Joan Didion
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"[In her devastating new book,] The Year of Magical Thinking, ... cut loose any fixed idea I had ever had about death, about illness, about probability and luck, about good fortune and bad, about marriage and children and memory, about grief, about the ways in which people do and do not deal with the fact that life ends, about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." — Joan Didion
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"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect." — Joan Didion
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"I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him, ... This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response." — Joan Didion
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