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We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Approximate author period: c. 1977 AD · modern
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- Joan Didion
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- Approximate author period: c. 1977 AD · modern
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