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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. Topic: Advice
Author: Joan Didion
I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it. Topic: Land
Author: Joan Didion
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. Topic: Morality
Author: Joan Didion
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. Topic: Morals 1 |
Author: Joan Didion