"You can’t put much on paper before you……" — Patricia Hampl
"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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23 Quotes by Patricia Hampl
Patricia Hampl has 23 quotes on this site.
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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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Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the…
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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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More Betray Quotes
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism…
— Walter Benjamin
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he…
— Edmund Burke
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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
— John le Carre
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I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you…
— Jimmy Carter
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
— Noam Chomsky
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Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they…
— Unknown Author
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By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
— Huineng
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