Quote by Joan Didion
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended a

Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled. – Joan Didion

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Strength is one of those things youre supposed to have. You dont feel that you have it at the time youre going through it. – Joan Didion

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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. – Joan Didion

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We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crows nest of that ship. – John Lennon

All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was pass? at the time. – David Bailey

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. – Jerry Garcia

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier — the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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My dad used to say to me, You look more like me than I do. – Dhani Harrison

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By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking. – Robert Cialdini

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A human life is a story told by God. – Hans Christian Andersen