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The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,…
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Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for…
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Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.
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I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the…
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This world is painted on a wild dark metal
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There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes.…
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My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.
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Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions?…
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The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once…
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I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white,…
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Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted…
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Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about…
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If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.
— Lorin Stein
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In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
— Peter Matthiessen
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Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is…
— Mitch Albom
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When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.
— Marya Hornbacher
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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,…
— Joan Didion
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In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your…
— Tom Robbins
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When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you.…
— Oscar Hijuelos
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