from On Keeping a Notebook by 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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“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
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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.
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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.
Rika Goldberg added
we forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. - Joan Didion
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