"Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world.……" — Joan Didion
"Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it, to look at it, to witness it. Try and get it. Seize the moment."
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Joan Didion
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204 Quotes by Joan Didion
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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