Quoting J. D. (From The White Album)

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Joan Didion

We tell ourselves stories in order to live... 

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.

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