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To end on the wonderful Joan Didion quote — a writer we all adore, of course — “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

From Los Angeles Times

Russia's state RIA news agency quoted a source saying that Tuesday's negotiations, which lasted six hours, had been tense and took place in different bilateral and trilateral formats.

From BBC

There was some saying Jonah’s mom always quoted—usually to Katherine— about how eavesdroppers never heard anything good about themselves.

From Literature

However, in an Instagram story posted Monday, Ray J put up this quote: “‘If you want to know who your real friends & family are, lose your job, get sick, or go through hard times.

From Los Angeles Times

An Anthropic spokesman is quoted as saying there are “hard limits around fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance,” but denied that it had objected to the Venezuelan operation.

From MarketWatch