"I often wonder if all the writers who……" — Natalie Goldberg
"I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing."
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118 Quotes by Natalie Goldberg
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a…
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we…
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All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.
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Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're…
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We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there…
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Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being…
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That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss…
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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.…
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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
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Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no…
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Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
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My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that.…
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[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.
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Whatever your (unfavorable) situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself "WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you were…
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Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing…
— George Saintsbury
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Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you…
— Mitch Hedberg
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My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could…
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I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
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No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single…
— William Lyon Mackenzie
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So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows…
— Michael Jackson
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I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many…
— Mother Teresa
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