The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language. - Joan Didion

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The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

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About Joan Didion

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

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