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Quote by Patricia Hampl

“Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.”

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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

“Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health, relies heavily on memory and on the ability to retrieve and organize images and events from the personal pastIf we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us—to write the first draft and then return for the second draft—we are doing the work of memory.”

“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.”

May Feelings Values Lost Memories Judgment Stores Passages Passage Of Time

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

People Dream Your Dreams Immortal Subconscious Comes And Goes

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“I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell.”

Ifs Stories

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“True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world”

World Self Literature Written Memoir

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“No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.”

Writing Long Memories Disbelief Hunches Reliability

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“Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.”

Prayer Position Oneself Placement

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“What is remembered is what becomes reality.”

Reality Remembered

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“Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.”

Trying Fun Fiction Identity Stealing

Author:Dan Chaon

“I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth. It's sort of freeing: I can say I'm abandoning this thing that I hate forever and I'm moving on to something that's good. I'll find that I'll go back to [the other project] in a day or a week and like it again. But that moment of wanting to trash something -- that Virginia Woolf moment when you have to be stopped from filling your pocket with stones -- comes pretty regularly for me. Switching is probably a good thing.”

I Can Different Moments Moving Hate Three Novel Forever One Thing Week Projects Stones I Hate Good Things Stuck Pockets Hops That Moment Filling Trash Back And Forth Virginia Switching Woolf

Author:Dan Chaon

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