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“Reading Didion today, more than ever, means submitting almost fully to the strange authority of the voice on the page.

“In “Only Disconnect,” published in 1980, Barbara Grizzutti Harrison called Didion a “neurasthenic Cher

“I’m grumpy when I’m forced to read a physical book because it’s not as convenient. Turning the pages … the book is always flopping itself shut at the wrong moment.

now who would this be but bezos

“The most damning information we have about Newt Gingrich is not that he is a cruel man, or even a dishonest man: It is that he is a distinctly weird man. Everything about him – from his hobby of writing alternate-history novels to his strangely pathetic Twitter-turfing–resonates with the sense of a guy who just never figured out how other people work.

sady doyle again

“Siri, the endlessly helpful computerized secretary who can figure out anything, except for the fact you’re a woman.

jesus, is there no escape.

“… but the actual internet as used by normal people is a highly constructed experience, shaped by the biggest companies in the world.

b michael

dorian leigh, 1952

(Source: highfashionaveragewoman.com)

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Cultivating inner awareness, introspection and reasoning can be more effective than meditation and prayer.

@DalaiLama

i am so relieved to hear you say that.