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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. 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, Riverside, CA, 1975
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