"Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead."

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We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but I had also known what he meant. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them. He meant wanting. He meant living.

— Joan Didion