Carter Quote by Joan Didion

“One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”

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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters…

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I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid…

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Style is character.

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“I went because I was interested in the alchemy of issues.”

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“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of…

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I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.

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My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies…

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I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

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“Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum…

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“Research to date has shown that, like many other stressors, grief frequently leads to changes in the endocrine, immune, autonomic nervous, and cardiovascular systems;…

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