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“Sometimes you’re so afraid, you don’t know where the fear is coming from anymore, and that makes it seem unparsable and totally intractable. But in writing your fears down, you give them a container, and you can begin to evaluate them—to see which ones are valid and which ones have no grounding in fact.”
― The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
― The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
“It taught me that if you’re in conversation with the self, you can be in conversation with the world.”
― The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
― The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
“It's okay to be envious—but only of the person you aspire to become.”
― The Art of Thinking Clearly
― The Art of Thinking Clearly
“To launch herself into something new—whether a novel, a memoir, a story, an essay—she must first gather up an unreasonable, unearned confidence bordering on lunacy.”
― The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
― The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
“If you censor yourself because you don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings, I could live with that. But when you censor yourself because you don’t want to jeopardize a job or a career, well, there goes the human experience. How are you going to make real friends if you’re faking it?”
― Sonny Boy: A Memoir
― Sonny Boy: A Memoir
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