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I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

As part of my work process, I take giant amounts of notes, and I am constantly copying

passages from books that I read. It's a lot of work, but it's also one of my favorite things to do.

Oddly, I'll often take notes or copy passages where the meaning isn't clear to me.

Sometimes it takes me years, if ever, to understand the meaning of something that I knew was significant,

but I didn't know why. And then when I grasp it, it's so thrilling. Nothing makes me happier.

This kind of epiphany happened to be once when I was in London, where I visited the beautiful Wallace

collection. Now, to set the scene for this epiphany, years before I'd read a fascinating book called

The Conversations, Walter Merch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Undatchey.

And I copy down a passage from Francis Ford Coppola's notes for the script of the excellent movie

The Conversation. Now, the conversation is a movie about the surveillance expert Harry

Call, who is played by Jean Hackman, who is hired by a mysterious client to tell a young couple

to try to record their conversations. In his notes, Coppola wrote,

the opening might be built out of fragments of various conversations, so that when we first

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