"Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste." — Patricia Hampl

"Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste."

— Patricia Hampl

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23 Quotes by Patricia Hampl

Patricia Hampl has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in…
I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.
You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the…
Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret…
If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation,…
Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked…
Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon…
In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates.
Refuse to write your life and you have no life.
Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method…
We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's…

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More Acquired Quotes

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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something… — Franklin P. Adams
The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first… — H. Rap Brown
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly… — Smedley Butler
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. — Andrew Carnegie
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. — Willa Cather
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to… — Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. — Lord Chesterfield
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired… — Kate Chopin
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to… — Emile M. Cioran

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