Joan Didion, every day is all there is https://t.co/YaaxocrXyT
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
Yesterday does not exist. Tomorrow never comes. There is only today.
Watts,Alan • Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion (Alan Watts Love Of Wisdom)
And of course none of it matters very much at all, none of these early successes, early failures.
Joan Didion • Let Me Tell You What I Mean
by the “ideas” with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
Joan Didion • The White Album: Essays
How it felt to me: that is getting closer to the truth about a note book. I sometimes delude myself about why I keep a notebook, imagine that some thrifty virtue derives from preserving everything observed. 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 throu
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Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them.