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Joan Didion
“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. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

Franz Kafka
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

Joan Didion
“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”
― Joan Didion

Joan Didion
“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

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