"I want life to be what I know it must be, if one lives it right: brilliant, intense, uncommon, agonizing, and painful, weirder than weird, beautiful, an epic adventure into existence...that's life."
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Joan Didion (American writer)
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Born: December 5, 1934
Died: December 23, 2021
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was an American writer renowned for her incisive essays, novels, and memoirs that explored themes of dislocation and self-deception in American life. Her groundbreaking essay collections, including Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) and The White Album (1979), cemented her reputation as a leading voice in New Journalism. Didion's memoirs, such as The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), provide deeply personal reflections on grief and loss. Her sharp observations and distinctive prose style influenced generations of writers and readers.
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Born: December 5, 1934
Died: December 23, 2021
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was an American writer renowned for her incisive essays, novels, and memoirs that explored themes of dislocation and self-deception in American life. Her groundbreaking essay collections, including Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) and The White Album (1979), cemented her reputation as a leading voice in New Journalism. Didion's memoirs, such as The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), provide deeply personal reflections on grief and loss. Her sharp observations and distinctive prose style influenced generations of writers and readers.
"Who I am and where I am and what is on my mind.
I want you to understand exactly what you are getting:
You are getting a woman who, for some time now,
has felt radically separated from most of
the ideas that seem to interest people.
You are getting a woman who, somewhere along the line,
misplaced whatever slight faith she ever had
in the social contract...in the whole grand pattern of human endeavor."
I want you to understand exactly what you are getting:
You are getting a woman who, for some time now,
has felt radically separated from most of
the ideas that seem to interest people.
You are getting a woman who, somewhere along the line,
misplaced whatever slight faith she ever had
in the social contract...in the whole grand pattern of human endeavor."
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"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking,
what I'm looking at, what I see, and what it means. What I want and what I fear"
what I'm looking at, what I see, and what it means. What I want and what I fear"
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"What I want to tell you today is not to move into
that world where you're alone with yourself and
your mantra and your fitness program or whatever
it is that you might use to try to control the world
by closing it out. I want to tell you to live in the mess.
Throw yourself out into the convulsions the world."
that world where you're alone with yourself and
your mantra and your fitness program or whatever
it is that you might use to try to control the world
by closing it out. I want to tell you to live in the mess.
Throw yourself out into the convulsions the world."
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"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."
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."
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"People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness,
a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called character—
the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life."
a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called character—
the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life."
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"To free us from the expectations of others,
to give us back to ourselves...there lies the great,
singular power of self-respect."
to give us back to ourselves...there lies the great,
singular power of self-respect."
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"I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish
anything, but if I don't work every day,
I get depressed and afraid to start again."
anything, but if I don't work every day,
I get depressed and afraid to start again."
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"We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that
mortality even as we push it away, failed by our
very complication, so wired that when we mourn
our losses, we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves.
As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all."
mortality even as we push it away, failed by our
very complication, so wired that when we mourn
our losses, we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves.
As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all."
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"I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost.
What is lost is already in the wall, already behind the locked doors.
The fear is for what is still to be lost."
What is lost is already in the wall, already behind the locked doors.
The fear is for what is still to be lost."
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"We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait: a gift for imaginative empathy, evidence of our willingness to give...we play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the necessity of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us... To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves...there lies the great singular power of self-respect."
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Bob Marley (Jamaican musician)
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Born : February 6, 1945
Died : May 11, 1981
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was a Jamaican singer-songwriter whose thoughtful ongoing distillation of early ska, rock steady, and reggae musical forms blossomed in the 1970s into an electrifying rock-influenced hybrid that made him an international superstar.
Marley gained international fame with hits like "No Woman, No Cry," "One Love," and "Redemption Song." His music often conveyed messages of love, unity, and resistance against oppression, influenced by his Rastafarian faith.
Despite his immense success, Marley remained committed to his cultural roots and activism. He survived an assassination attempt in 1976, underscoring his political influence. Marley died in 1981 from cancer at the age of 36 but left a lasting legacy as a global cultural icon and a symbol of peace and freedom.
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Born : February 6, 1945
Died : May 11, 1981
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was a Jamaican singer-songwriter whose thoughtful ongoing distillation of early ska, rock steady, and reggae musical forms blossomed in the 1970s into an electrifying rock-influenced hybrid that made him an international superstar.
Marley gained international fame with hits like "No Woman, No Cry," "One Love," and "Redemption Song." His music often conveyed messages of love, unity, and resistance against oppression, influenced by his Rastafarian faith.
Despite his immense success, Marley remained committed to his cultural roots and activism. He survived an assassination attempt in 1976, underscoring his political influence. Marley died in 1981 from cancer at the age of 36 but left a lasting legacy as a global cultural icon and a symbol of peace and freedom.
"All music is root music that comes from...a
creativeness. Once it creates it is root music.
If it is a follow thing then it is not roots. We
are dealing with the creativity, the creative
power. You know?"
creativeness. Once it creates it is root music.
If it is a follow thing then it is not roots. We
are dealing with the creativity, the creative
power. You know?"
"The people who are trying to make this
world worse are not taking a day off.
Why should I?"
world worse are not taking a day off.
Why should I?"
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"We play what we want to play, when we want
to play it, how we want to play it. And we have
a reason why we play it."
to play it, how we want to play it. And we have
a reason why we play it."
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"Possessions make you rich? I don't
have that type of richness. My richness
is life, forever."
have that type of richness. My richness
is life, forever."