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Left Quotes by Joan Didion
- We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I…
- What does it cost to lose those weeks, that light, the very nights in the year preferred over all others? Can you evade the dying…
- In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box…
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