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Joan Didion may be right that “we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not,”

Maria Popova • Becoming the Marginalian: After 15 Years, Brain Pickings Reborn

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there’s something soothing about being proud of the achievements of an older version of yourself, even if that version is no longer aligned with who you are today.

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

Joan Didion • Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

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In her essay “On Keeping a Notebook” [4], Joan Didion warned that “we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.” She added: “Otherwise, they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted th

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I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m . of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soo... See more

Joan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion

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I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon

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It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one’s self back in that kind of mood, but I do see it; I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m... See more

Joan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion

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Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook," Slouching Towards Bethlehem