Egor Sokolov
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Egor Sokolov
I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Writing Rituals of Joan Didion
The last sentence, she claimed, should open the piece up and make the reader want to go back and start the piece over again.
Writing Rituals of Joan Didion
“In the never-ending haze of afters and orgies, are we careering through a tech-driven, pharma-forward sexual dystopia with no happy ending in sight?”
Digital Media and
“…sluttiness becomes a consumer identity, one that can be purchased and performed, if not necessarily acted on.“
We’ve Reached Peak Gay Sluttiness
But our notebooks give us away, for however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable “I.”
Joan Didion • On Keeping A Notebook
Keepers of private notebooks are a differ ent breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.
Joan Didion • On Keeping A Notebook
I write entirely to find out what’s on my mind, what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I’m seeing and what it means, what I want and what I’m afraid of
Joan Didion • On Keeping A Notebook
On Keeping a Notebook By Joan Didion
“Slowness is not glamorous. No one claps for stillness. No one hands out medals for saying, “Actually, I’d like a little less right now.” The world does not reward softness. It rarely understands it. But I am glad I do.”