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Joan Baez was a personality before she was entirely a person, and, like anyone to whom that happens, she is in a sense the hapless victim of what others have seen in her, written about her, wanted her to be and not to be.
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How could this have happened when everything was normal?
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I've never been any place I wanted to go.
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I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted.
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I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure.
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When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.
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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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The power of grief to derange the mind has in fact been exhaustively noted.
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I dealt with it the same way I deal with everything. I just tended my own garden, didn't pay much attention, behaved—I suppose—deviously. I mean I didn't actually let too many people know what I was doing.
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