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Autobiography and memoir

Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

Joan Didion

2011

★ 1.9

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Memory

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2011

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Joan Didion

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Didion, Joan. Blue Nights. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember. — Joan Didion

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