Joan Didion, from Blue Nights
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― Joan Didion, Blue Nights
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Commonplace pages about Joan Didion’s On Keeping a Notebook and the art of Louis Wain
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Joan Didion writes, in On Keeping a Notebook, that the purpose of keeping a notebook, or a journal for that matter, isn’t because you simply want keep a personal record of things; but because you want to remember the person you were at that specific moment. we write things down on our notebook/journal/diary (whichever one of those you keep) because we want to remember. we want to remember what specific people meant to us on a particular day or hour. or minute. we want to remember our first impression of something (or of doing that something), possibly of someone, too. sometimes we think we’ll “always remember” important events: “I’ll make a mental note of that” etc etc. but in reality everything is fleeting. so Didion says write it down. keep a journal. that way, people, places, and certain events will always be there in case you ever want to come back to them sometime in the future. but also so that they don’t ever haunt you.
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joan didion, “on self-respect”
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I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.
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Joan Didion, from The Year of Magical Thinking
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"to endure!"
vincent van gogh ("trees and undergrowth")
robert lowell [How will the heart endure?]
vincent van gogh [I must endure bad times and the waters will rise, possibly as high as the lips and possibly even higher, how can I know beforehand? But I’ll fight my fight and sell my life dearly and try to win and pull through.]
rainer maria rilke [To be loved means to be consumed. To love means to radiate with inexhaustible light. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.]
joan didion [Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it.]
elena ferrante [maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.]
elena ferrante [I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.]
han kang [The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure.]
victor frankl [What is to give light must endure burning.]
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Joan Didion’s collection of books by Ernest Hemingway, from her estate sale
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“I’m not telling you to make the world better I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it."
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Molly Fischer, Joan Didion’s Greatest Two-Word Sentence: The power of an ice-cold, unflinching gaze.
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joan didion // instagram
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