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Steal This Quote: Joan Didion

Joan Didion
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
— Joan Didion, American novelist and journalist
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