Joan Didion - The White Album (1979)

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

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In Houston the air was warm and rich and suggestive of fossil fuel.

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Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.

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We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five.

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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

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One thing you will note about shopping-center theory is that you could have thought of it yourself, and a course in it will go a long way toward dispelling the notion that business proceeds from mysteries too recondite for you and me.

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We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

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