Joan Didion
[Writer, b. 1934, Sacramento, California, lives in New York.]
...[t]o shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.
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…if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. Let them become the photograph on the table.
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For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable “I.”
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