I&#39;ve always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it&#39;s so personal to me. Now it doesn&#39;t feel as frightening as I thought it would.

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.

You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat.

Written By Joan Didion

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