Joan Didion

Essayist

Joan Didion wrote The White Album. The sentence about stories is presented as a literary quotation, whose interpretation requires more care than simply turning it into a motivational motto.

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2 quotes we’ve traced to Joan Didion

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned”

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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live”

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