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  1. Joan Didion _ Play It as It Lays

    I try to live in the now and keep my eye on the hummingbird. I see no one I used to know, but then I'm not just crazy about a lot of people. I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?
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  2. Joan Didion _ Play It as It Lays

    MARIA MADE A LIST of things she would never do. She would never: walk through the Sands or Caesar's alone after midnight. She would never: ball at a party, do S-M unless she wanted to, borrow furs from Abe Lipsey, deal. She would never: carry a Yorkshire in Beverly Hills.
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  3. Joan Didion _ Play It as It Lays

    Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is "nothing.
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  4. Joan Didion _ Play It as It Lays

    Maria did not particularly believe in rewards, only in punishments, swift and personal.
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  5. Joan Didion _ Play It as It Lays

    She never puts on any weight, you'll notice that's often true of selfish women.
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  6. Joan Didion _ Play It as It Lays

    Sometime in the night she had moved into a realm of miseries peculiar to women, and she had nothing to say to Carter.
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  7. Joan Didion _ Play It as It Lays

    try to live in the now and keep my eye on the hummingbird. I see no one I used to know, but then I'm not just crazy about a lot of people. I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?
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