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Joan Didion Quotes: If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.
         

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.


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