Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.Joan Didion
Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.
Joan Didion
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
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.
Joan Didion
hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.
Joan Didion
Writers are always selling somebody out.
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