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From Quotes by Dani Shapiro
- Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
- Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.
- My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.
- Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
- I’ve discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even…
- I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of…
- The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which…
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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