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01c. 1977 AD

I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness.

Joan Didion / quote

02c. 1977 AD

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

Joan Didion / quote

03c. 1977 AD

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

Joan Didion / quote

04c. 1977 AD

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.

Joan Didion / quote