Nikki Chan
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Nikki Chan
The Weight of Wanting to Become — Business & Arts
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Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.
- JOAN DIDION, On Keeping A Notebook
- JOAN DIDION, On Keeping A Notebook
On Archiving Identities: Keeping Joan Didion Close — Business & Arts
There are mornings when life feels like a queue at the edge of time—each of us clutching our place, unsure what we are waiting for in a vast and shifting line. We invent meaning to fill the hours between movement. We rearrange the furniture of our waiting: university studies, a job, love affairs, days filled with rituals, the promise of a better... See more
The Weight of Wanting to Become — Business & Arts
It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about. And we are all on our own when it comes to keeping those lines open to ourselves: your notebook will never help me, nor mine you.
On Archiving Identities: Keeping Joan Didion Close — Business & Arts
notebooks and joandidion
Doris Lessing on reading:
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that
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