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 image.

Joan Didion

The White Album

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Rootedness Place

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Joan Didion

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In the Islands The White Album

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Essay

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English

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1979 1970s 20th century

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Didion, Joan. "In the Islands." The White Album. Simon & Schuster, 1979.

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I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise, they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a. M. Of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

Joan Didion

On Keeping a Notebook

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Joan Didion
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Essay
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English
Time
1968 1960s 20th century
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Didion, Joan. "On Keeping a Notebook." Holiday, 1966.

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In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. 'Cause there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have one. Walt Kurtz has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane.

Apocalypse Now

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Good and evil Human nature Vietnam War
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Apocalypse Now
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Film
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Language
English
Time
1979 1970s 20th century
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Apocolypse Now. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Omni Zoetrope, 1979.