Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion

Play it as it lays, Joan Didion

"Why was she crying, he wanted to know. Because he made her so happy, she said, and for that moment believed it."

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"To most people, mescalin is almost completely innocuous. Unlike alcohol, it does not drive the taker into the kind of uninhibited action which results in brawls, crimes of violence and traffic accidents. A man under the influence of mescalin quietly minds his own business. Moreover, the business he minds is an experience of the most enlightening kind, which does not have to be paid for (and this is surely important) by a compensatory hangover."

The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley

"Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss."

-Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays, Joan Didion