"This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning."

-- Joan Didion

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“The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.”
“The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year. . . . A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.”
“Everybody at Barcelona loves Messi. They can't speak highly of him”
“I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.”
“Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.”
“You need a story to displace a story.”
“Asking for money is better over coffee than over a computer.”
“This is the United States of America and it's always a busy time.”

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