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#1

“Some things have to be believed to be seen”
― Ralph Hodgson

tags: faith

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#2

“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.”
― Thomas M. Cirignano, The Constant Outsider: Memoirs of a South Boston Mechanic

tags: boston, boston-harbor, boston-history, bully, bullying, castle-island, cirignano, discrimination, dorchester, drinking-and-driving, fitting-in, forced-busing, gas-shortage, irish-mob, italian, memoir, murder, nonfiction, osracism, south-boston, southie, true-crime, whitey-bulger

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#3

“Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga. ”
― William Zinsser

tags: memoir, writing

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#4

“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ...We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.”
― Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

tags: friendship, grief, memoir

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#5

“Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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#6

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

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#7

“When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen:

There will be something solid for you to stand upon, or, you will be taught to fly.”
― Patrick Overton, The Leaning Tree

tags: darkness, faith, risk, unknown

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#8

“Some women pray for their daughters to marry good husbands. I pray that my girls will find girlfriends half as loyal and true as the Ya-Yas.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

tags: friendship-true-and-loyal, friendships, girlfriends, girlfriendship, hopes, mothers-and-daughters, mothers-love, prayers

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#9

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
― Oprah Winfrey

tags: experience, inspirational, pain, wisdom, wounds

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#10

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#11

“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: analogy, public-speaking, simile, speaking

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#12

“It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.”
― Nicholas Boothman, Convince Them in 90 Seconds or Less: Make Instant Connections That Pay Off in Business and in Life

tags: communication, persuasion, public-speaking

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#13

“See every situation as a BLOT i.e. everything that comes your way is either a Blessing, Lesson, Opportunity, or a Test.”
― Henry Agbebire

tags: inspirational, life-lessons, public-speaking

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#14

“Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.”
― Philip Sidney, Astrophel And Stella

tags: inspirational, writers-block, writers-on-writing, writing-advice

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#15

“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

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#16

“An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fill a bottomless pit. But he’s not so much needy as entitled, so no matter how much you give him, it will never be enough. He will just keep coming up with more demands because he believes his needs are your responsibility, until you feel drained down to nothing.”
― Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

tags: abuse, abused-women, abuser, abusive-men, abusive-partner, abusive-relationship, domestic-abuse, domestic-violence, emotional-abuse, physical-abuse

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#17

“Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.”
― Mark Matousek, Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story

tags: memoir

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#18

“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.”
― Steuart Henderson Britt, Marketing Management and Administrative Action

tags: advertising, business, commerce, humor, marketing

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