"We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism, nor as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal."
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Joan Didion in The White Album
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