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Susanna Moore, author of eleven books, who teaches creative writing at Princeton.
Sara Davidson • The Didion Files
Hemingway offered to modify the noun with “lousy” or “lesbian,” but if anyone was ever a bitch, he said it was Gertrude Stein.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
“I’m Mrs. Burns-Cooper,” said the woman, “and after this, well, it’s all right this time, because it’s your first time, but after this time always use the back entrance.” There is a pear in my icebox, and one end of rye bread. Except for three Irish potatoes and a cup of flour and the empty Christmas boxes, there is absolutely nothing on my shelf.
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Manhattan borough president Ruth Messinger,
Joan Didion • After Henry: Essays
In the French commune there is properly but one official functionary, namely, the Maire; and in New England we have seen that there are nineteen.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
the defendants could in this light be seen as victims of “a political trial”, of a “legal lynching”, of a case “rigged from the very beginning” by the decision of “the white press”
Joan Didion • After Henry: Essays
the public life of liberal Hollywood comprises a kind of dictatorship of good intentions, a social contract in which actual and irreconcilable disagreement is as taboo as failure or bad teeth, a climate devoid of irony.
Joan Didion • The White Album: Essays
“She said a lot of stupid shit. But Kelly Maguire’s not a racist. Not by a long shot. Good God, she’s fucking Nelson Mandela compared to some of the Aryan assholes we got badged up.”