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Joan Didion Quotes

We tell ourselves stories in order to live? We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret What we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. (Quoted from Into Thin Air, taken from The White Album by Joan Didion)

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