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+ joan didion (1968)

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Photographed by Cecil Beaton for American Vogue, June 1948.

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“I got intrigued by the look of individual words. The word ‘guarantee,’ for instance, looks to me a bit like a South American insect.”

— Aram Saroyan looking at language in poetry (via The Poetry Foundation)

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Isabella Watling (detail)

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“It’s not ‘natural’ to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little–have few verbal means. Eloquence–thinking in words–is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality.”

— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh (via the-book-diaries)

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Franny Choi, from “Real Talk”, Floating, Brilliant, Gone

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reminding myself daily that choices are portals, not endings

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Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

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Pannonica de Koenigswarter (1913 – 1988)

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how to embrace change?

you pretend to be okay with it until the grief of it creeps up on you in a grocery shopping aisle & brings you to your knees

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Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red [ID in ALT]

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what should i do?

Destroy everything you identify with, then identify with something that you cannot destroy. I chose the sky, not any one cloud but I am the container

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Mela Muter in her studio

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greeting committee of dolphins, 1983

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– Susan Sontag

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Maybe it’s just me but the only thing worth having sex for is true love