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“everywhere you go, people know that you’ve accomplished something special, and they treat you that way, for about a week. I guess that’s why we have these holidays like Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. We need to be patted on the back, something worthwhile in all that we go through.”
― Sonny Boy: A Memoir
― Sonny Boy: A Memoir
“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
“Look the world in the face as if you owned it.. You own as much of it as anyone.”
― Lanark
― Lanark
“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
“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
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