The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules. - Joan Didion

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Joan Didion: "The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules."

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Able	Absolute	Agent	America
Case	Century	Desire	Drove
Find	Free	Freedom	Instinct
Live	Mobility	Money	Neither
Nineteenth	Ones	Open	Pacific
Personal	Point	Power	Powers
Privacy	Restaurant	Rules	Sake
Sandwich	Secret	Things	Through
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