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I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.
Joan Didion
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Joan Didion
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: December 5
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Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.
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I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.
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