Quotes by Didion, Joan

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all o >>

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its powe >>

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used t >>

Quotations about Twentieth Century

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

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts. >>

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this >>

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.

Didion, Joan