The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
Joan Didion
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We imagined we knew everything the other thought even when we did not necessarily want to know it but in fact I have come to see we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.
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What these men represented was not The West but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America a group devoid of social responsibilities because their ties to any one place had been so attenuated.
- Joan Didion