Time is the school in which we learn Author: Joan Didion Copy Quote More from Joan Didion “They feed back exactly what is given them. Because they do not believe in words…” “When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.” “We are not idealized wild things.We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that …” “It is the phenomenon somethings called "alienation from self." In its advanced …”