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- I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.
- It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How…
- What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I…
- Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking…
- Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.
- I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of…
- You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to…
- I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she…
- We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who…
- People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push…
- But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things…
- My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to…
- He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.
- She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she'd made her…
- It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.
- Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That perhaps being amidst…
- Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.
- If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will…
- I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in bewildered detail, but…
- Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the…
- I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't…
- Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother—even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me.…
- The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in…
- Wounded?” was all I could manage. “Yes,” said Pat. “And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their…
- I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong,…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle