“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“Instant acceptance of an idea is as self-defeating as instant rejection.”
— Mark Clifton, book They'd Rather Be Right
Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 163.
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