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

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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

“To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.”

Thinking Industry Concepts Garments Childbirth Handy Zippers

Author:Jane Wagner

“Ahhhhhhhh. There is nothing natural about natural childbirth. It is as close to a freak accident as anything I can think of. Why I picked a time like this to go off drugs?”

Thinking I Can Natural Drug Accidents Freak Childbirth Natural Childbirth

Author:Jane Wagner

“Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.”

Young Childhood

Book:My Life, So Far: By Edith Ann

Source: My Life, So Far: By Edith Ann

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