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I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at,

I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. – Joan Didion

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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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Twentieth Century
Author
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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strength
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Joan Didion
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There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, thats spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement. – Ron Chernow

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Fear is the highest fence. – Dudley Nichols

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Fear

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. – German Proverb

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Fear

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Fear

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