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  • #1
    “Words were cannibals eating up their own past.”
    ― Ellen Miller , Like Being Killed
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    “Her smile was a supernova: blazing, beautiful, short-lived.”
    ― Ellen Miller, Like Being Killed
    tags: simile, smile, supernova
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    “Sometimes I became so permeable, so porous, that I would absorb too much, until a valve yielded, and everything rushed out in a quick drain.”
    ― Ellen Miller, Like Being Killed
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    “The light, like the sensation of togetherness, was manufactured, seeping in from external commerce.”
    ― Ellen Miller, Like Being Killed
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    “Gone is what happens when people stop asking, when all research has ceased, when no one contributes to the archives of a life or its extinction.”
    ― Ellen Miller, Like Being Killed
    tags: gone
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    “Your generosity is cosmetic if you don't fully comprehend that the power to give is positively correlated with a concomitant power to deny, and both of these are the privileges of those who live in abundance, and I don't mean money.”
    ― Ellen Miller, Like Being Killed
    tags: generosity, privilege
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    “I never saw her a burglar prying my windows open with a jimmy to steal whatever she found inside.”
    ― Ellen Miller, Like Being Killed
    tags: burglar
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    Dani Shapiro
    “But today, something begins to shift. I see that there might be some way I can take the raw material of my life and transform it into something that has order and structure. I can make sense of what, until now, has been senseless.”
    ― Dani Shapiro, Slow Motion: A True Story
    tags: how-to-write, writers-quotes, writing, writing-process
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    Dani Shapiro
    “What she doesn't realize is that I have survived for her as well -- and only now am I beginning to survive for myself.”
    ― Dani Shapiro, Slow Motion: A True Story
    tags: surviving
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    Virginia Woolf
    “First she starved herself of love, which meant also life; then of poetry in deference to what she thought her religion demanded.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
    tags: love, poetry, starvation
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    “Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might; often you need to take the long way around. And if you're writing memoir you're bound to discover things about yourself you didn't realize before, may indeed prefer never to have know, but there you are: progress of some sort.”
    ― Abigail Thomas
    tags: memoir, writers, writing, writing-advice, writing-craft
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    “It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.”
    ― Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It
    tags: ending-relationships, endings, love, love-hurts, love-quotes
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    “After all, there are those people we like and dislike, there are those people we love, and then there are those we recognize. These are the unbreakable connections.”
    ― Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It
    tags: connectedness, connection-with-others, connection-with-people, connections, people
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    “Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.”
    ― Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It
    tags: age, growth, life-philosophy, meaning, personal-development, personal-development-insights
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    Dani Shapiro
    “It wasn't so much that I was in search of answers. In fact, I was wary of the whole idea of answers. I wanted to climb all the way inside of the questions and see what was there.”
    ― Dani Shapiro, Devotion
    tags: answers, desire-for-knowledge, knowledge, questions, searching, searching-for-answers
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    “I was too apathetic to be bored or anxious. Boredom and anxiety were the neurotic cousins of concern; they implied wishes. I had no wishes or wants. I didn't even want dope. I only needed it.”
    ― Ellen Miller, Like Being Killed
    tags: addiction
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    “Because there's no such thing as too much water under the bridge. The only problem is a refusal to deal with the water that's already gone pasts.”
    ― Ellen Miller, Like Being Killed
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    “He paid me to discover ways to express the unnameable; to get to the bottom of an utterance; to find words for the things for which there were no words yet, thereby bringing them into existence, committing them to paper, projecting them into the future. The work was part drudgery, part deity.”
    ― Ellen Miller, Like Being Killed
    tags: lexicology, love-of-words, words, writer-on-words
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    Vivian Gornick
    “In Edmund Gosse, Agnes Smedley, Geoffrey Wolff, we have a set of memoirists whose work records a steadily changing idea of the emergent self. But for each of them a flash of insight illuminating that idea grew out of the struggle to clarify one's own formative experience; and in each case the strength and beauty of the writing lie in the power of concentration with which this insight is pursued, and made to become the the writer's organizing principle. That principle at work is what makes a memoir literature rather than testament.”
    ― Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
    tags: memoir, memoir-as-literature, self, writing, writing-craft, writing-memoir
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    Vivian Gornick
    “She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?”
    ― Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
    tags: finding-the-story, finding-the-truth, story, truth, writing
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  • #21
    Annie Dillard
    “Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.”
    ― Annie Dillard
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    Stephanie Klein
    “If another man wanted me, I was valuable. I was esteemed, no matter that it wasn't self-esteem.”
    ― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty
    tags: dating, love, self-esteem, self-love, self-worth
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    Stephanie Klein
    “Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believing that we had ownership, that we could have done something to change the outcome. It's lazier than The Clapper.”
    ― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty
    tags: destiny, destiny-quotes, meant-to-be, meant-to-be-quotes
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    Mary Oliver
    “Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
    ― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays
    tags: attention, attention-quotes, devotion, devotion-quotes, inspirational-quotes
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    “Forgiveness is the highest degree of a trust in a better man”
    ― Slaven Vujic
    tags: better-person, forgive, forgiveness, forgiveness-quotes, forgiving, second-chances, trust, trusting, trustworthiness, trustworthy
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    Twyla Tharp
    “If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.”
    ― Twyla Tharp
    tags: art, bridge, creativity, skill, vision
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    Twyla Tharp
    “Planning lets you impose order on the chaotic process of making something new, but when it's taken too far you get locked into a status quo, and creative thinking is about breaking free from the status quo, even from one you made yourself.”
    ― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
    tags: creativity, planning, status-quo
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    Twyla Tharp
    “There in a nutshell is the essence of creativity: There are a number of possibilities, but only one solution looks inevitable.”
    ― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
    tags: creativity
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  • #29
    “Out of many, one people.”
    ― Grace Jones, I'll Never Write My Memoirs
    tags: one-love
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