Quotes by Didion, Joan

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the sou >>

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher orde >>

We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as >>

Quotations about Morality

I'm as pure as the driven slush. >>

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maint >>

The end never really justifies the meanness. >>

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Didion, Joan