"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 try to get the picture. To live
recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To
seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could
tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there
embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on
the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it
while you can and good luck at it."
Joan Didion
Thursday, May 28, 2015
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