Lauren Jensen
@laurenjane
Lauren Jensen
@laurenjane
"My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
Didion, Joan. "Introduction".
... See moreA great work of art is like a dream; for all its apparent obviousness it does not explain itself and is never unequivocal. A dream never says: “You ought,” or: “This is the truth.” It presents an image in much the same way as nature allows a plant to grow, and we must draw our own conclusions.
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark, deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets of a man does not know he has. How often one goes to sleep troubled full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and a clearness is there,
... See moreEverybody's bragging. And then it's like, you know what? Just do the thing that everybody does and don't think too hard about it.