写下东西的冲动是一种奇特的强迫性,对于那些不共享它的人来说是遥不可及的,仅是偶然地,仅以任何强迫试图证明自身合理的方式而有用的。 。 。 。私人笔记本的守护者完全是另一种不同的品种,孤独和抵抗的事物重排,焦虑的恶意,儿童显然在出生时遭受了一些损失。 -joan didion
(The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. . . . 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. -Joan Didion)