"Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when……" — Patricia Hampl
"Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world."
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23 Quotes by Patricia Hampl
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The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in…
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I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.
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You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.
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Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret…
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If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation,…
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Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked…
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Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon…
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In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates.
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Refuse to write your life and you have no life.
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Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.
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Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method…
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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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