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Selected features, articles and essays from the world's best journalists and writers.
22nd Nov

On Keeping a Notebook

by Joan Didion

Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of it actually happened? Did any of it? Why do I keep a notebook at all? It is easy to deceive oneself on all those scores.

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