Diane von Furstenberg Has No Regrets: ‘I Will Laugh When I Die’
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Diane von Furstenberg Has No Regrets: ‘I Will Laugh When I Die’
The professional identifies with her consciousness and her will, not with the matter that her consciousness and will manipulate to serve her art. Does Madonna walk around the house in cone bras and come-fuck-me bustiers? She’s too busy planning D-Day. Madonna does not identify with “Madonna.” Madonna employs “Madonna.”
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
“The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.”
— Dr. Joan Borysenko
See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do, which is write — on that bankrupt morning I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest, paid passage... See more
Joan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
How novel a concept, to stay with yourself. To refuse to let a false label win, no matter how seductive, well-crafted, popularly received it becomes. You have the last word on who you are.
Leandra Medine Cohen • Notes from the running path
“She was transparent and authentic before those things were cool,” said Arianna Huffington. “When she went through her battles with weight, with her battles to come to grips with her past, we went through those things with her. Now with social media and the Internet, those things are the coin of the realm, but she got there before the rest of us di... See more