I am what I am. To look for ‘reasons’ is beside the point. - Joan Didion

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I am what I am. To look for ‘reasons’ is beside the point.

Joan Didion

Play It As It Lays · November 15, 2005 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer known as a novelist, journalist and prose stylist.

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