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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. |
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Vote: | Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. |
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Vote: | To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. |
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Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American writer, renowned as a journalist and prose stylist. Didion contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. With her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, she collaborated on several screenplays. She lives in New York City.
Didion was born in Sacramento, California and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1956. Much of Didion's writing focuses on California, particularly the 1960s and the passing of the world in which she grew up. Her portrayals of conspiracy theorists, paranoiacs, and sociopaths (including Charles Manson) are now considered part of American Literature.
Didion is the author of five novels and seven books of non-fiction. Her collections of essays, Slouching Toward Bethlehem (1968) and The White Album (1979) -- a book described in one review as helping to define California as "the paranoia capital of the world" -- made her famous as an observer of American politics and culture with a distinctive style of reportage that mixed personal reflection and social analysis. This led her to be associated with members of the New Journalism such as Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson, though Didion's ties to that movement have never been considered particularly strong.
Didion's most recent book, Where I Was From (2003), is considered to be the most autobiographical of her works. It contains both new and collected essays, all of them reflections on California mythologies, and on the author's somewhat complicated relationships to her birth place and to her mother. Indirectly, it also serves as a rumination on the American frontier myth and the rootless, consumerist lifestyle that California can be said to have pioneered.
Didion has one child, a daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, who was adopted at birth.
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