Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking
I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are...
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Today I am even richer.
Until you develop the courage to pursue that dream in your heart, you will never reach your true potential.
People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.
When you're as hot as you are, no amount of ice will do.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really works. If that is your goal, then you want to make sure that your information is accu...