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Joan Didion

"I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give."

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"I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give."

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"What is inherent inside you is your uniqueness and peculiarity."

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"Many of us will not realize who we are because we do not want to go through the pain and trials."

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"knowledge of who we are prevents us from being distracted by the demands of our surroundings."

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"Aren't we all homeless without a home inside our mind?"

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"She may have been among them but she could never be one of them. She was without inclusion for-as-much as she was not "one of the girls" and she wasn't "one of the guys." She was an outsider gazing in, endlessly comfortless, while they wished they had what it took to be less like the others and more like her."

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"A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something."

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"The image of God is in every human."

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"When we speak, dress, and think like others, we live with the goal of achieving the approval they have."

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"The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever."

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"I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness."
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"We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as 'ordinary blessings."
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"A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.Wrong, I want to say.In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age."
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"I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story."
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"I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future."
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"Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?"
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"Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself."
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