“Do you always travel with such cumbersome books?" "I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.”
― S.
― S.
“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.”
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“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
― Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
“...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.”
― This is Where I Leave You
― This is Where I Leave You
“The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.”
― One Last Thing Before I Go
― One Last Thing Before I Go
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