We never reach a point at which our lives lie before us as a clearly marked open road, never have and never should expect a map to the years ahead, never do close those circles that seem, at thirteen and fourteen and nineteen, so urgently in need of closing.

Joan Didion

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Nature of life The human condition

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Joan Didion

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Pacific Distances After Henry

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Writer

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United States

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Original Citation

Didion, Joan. "Pacific Distances." After Henry. Simon & Schuster, 1992.

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Didion, Joan. "Pacific Distances." Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s, edited by David L. Ulin. Library of America, 2021.

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Time
1968 1960s 20th century
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I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

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Randomness Timing The human condition
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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 9:11).