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Hot Milk
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It’s up to you to break the old circuits. – Hélène Cixous, ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’
“My preoccupation was unbalanced, fetishistic. Sick is what it was. And it made me sick - anxious and grasping and, in some obscure yet vital sense, self-abandoned. I needed to stop living her life, reclaim my own. I needed to get violent.”
― Didion and Babitz
― Didion and Babitz
“I felt that I was a damaged person who deserved nothing.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“And because we were in Southern California-in Hollywood even-there was no history for us. There were no books or traditions telling us how we could turn out or what anything meant.”
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“Maybe I am a slow learner, but ultimately, it is a choice. I choose not to be a cynic. Living my life suspecting everyone's motives, thinking the worst of people, is no life at all. Letting people get close to you is always a risk. Though I have learned to be careful, I am unwilling to shut myself off completely.”
― Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis
― Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis
“I wanted to explain that I didn't know how much I was allowed to feel about it, or how much of what I felt at the time I was still allowed to feel in retrospect.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
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