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Joan Didion

By Jessica Morrell Posted in Jessica Page Morrell , Joan Didion, quote, seize the moment | Comments Off on Joan Didion

“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To […]

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