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Marriage is memory, marriage is time.

Joan Didion

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Joan Didion
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: December 5
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Sacramento
California
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we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.
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I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost.
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I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.
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I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.
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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.
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