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I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts ... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words... I write as though I am whispering in the ear of the one I
the moment you try to present yourself as a cardboard character — always right, always upstanding (or always wrong, a total mess) — the reader begins to doubt everything you say.
truly beautiful writing can never be done justice by a summary,
Memoir is not about “look at me, look at me,” at least not when done well. Instead it is about trying to understand the vexing mysteries of human existence.
And if sages and prophets have been telling us for thousands of years that the simple recipe for happiness is love and contentment, why are so many of us lonely and unfulfilled?
