Quotes by Didion, Joan

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. >>

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

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

Quotations about Twentieth Century

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bri >>

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

All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was passé at th >>

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.

Didion, Joan