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Quote by Patricia Hampl

“Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.”

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Patricia Hampl is a renowned American memoirist, born on March 12, 1946. Her works are known for their profound personal perspective and exploration of memory, which have won her a wide readership. more

“The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.”

Way Mind Real Choices Journey Pursuit Tales Wander Boredom Paradox Destination Willingness Endeavor Casual Pilgrimage

Book:Spillville: A Collaboration

Source: Spillville: A Collaboration

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

Sometimes Might Passion Wealth Poverty Envy Decency Begets

Author:Patricia Hampl

“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.”

Writing Spiritual Life Is Values Memories Historical Stores

Author:Patricia Hampl

“It's always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see.”

Mean Risk Thrilling

Author:Patricia Hampl

“Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.”

Men Pet

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.”

Ifs Might Happens Today Worry Regret Tomorrow Yesterday Our Time

Author:Thomas Sowell

“It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.”

Ifs Thinking Want Ambition Ambitious

Author:Jane Wagner

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