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What is remembered is what becomes reality, — Patricia Hampl

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination. — Kenneth Goldsmith

Will and intellect are one and the same thing. — Baruch Spinoza

Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends. — Sandra Bullock

When you're dealing with your life, my God, you gotta tell the truth. — Elaine Stritch

If you have enemies, then your biggest enemy is yourself. Do you know that, Mma? — Alexander McCall Smith

Planes are my foxhole. I'm always on my knees in them. — Patricia Hampl

Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person. — Patricia Hampl

Accept nothing nearly right or good enough — Henry Royce

Refuse to write your life and you have no life. — Patricia Hampl

I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them. — Patricia Hampl

Here, in memory, we live and die. — Patricia Hampl

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility. — Arthur Miller

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is. — Patricia Hampl

It's always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see. — Patricia Hampl

You can't put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil. — Patricia Hampl

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl

I shall not grow conservative with age. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal. — Patricia Hampl

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool. — Patricia Hampl

In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates. — Patricia Hampl

Poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception. — Patricia Hampl

STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future. — Douglas Coupland

We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling. — Patricia Hampl

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency. — Patricia Hampl

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself. — Patricia Hampl

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. — Patricia Hampl

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know. — Patricia Hampl

The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film. — Marshall McLuhan

Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory. — Patricia Hampl

Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust ... — Patricia Hampl

I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell. — Patricia Hampl

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us. — Bryan Cranston

The world is full of mystery but it must not be choked with secrets: we must talk to one another. — Patricia Hampl

I got those Moves Like Jagger! — Maroon 5

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical. — Patricia Hampl

A careful first draft is a failed first draft — Patricia Hampl

It still comes as a shock to realize that I don't write about what I know, but in order to find out what I know. - PATRICIA HAMPL If — Lynn Lauber

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy. — Patricia Hampl

It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves. — Patricia Hampl