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- I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen…
- In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was…
- All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.
- I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
- I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of…
- It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
- A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it.…
- With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
- We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting…
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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