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Patricia Hampl Quotes

A careful first draft is a failed first draft Picture Quote #1

What is remembered is what becomes reality Picture Quote #1

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery Picture Quote #1

Poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception Picture Quote #1

We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that’s the implacable judgment of feeling Picture Quote #1

Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn’t itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines Picture Quote #1

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People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they’re in your subconscious, they are immortal Picture Quote #1

You ca’ put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil Picture Quote #1

Coffee was a food in that house, not a drink Picture Quote #1

Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust Picture Quote #1

Planes are my foxhole. I’m always on my knees in them Picture Quote #1

Here, in memory, we live and die Picture Quote #1

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Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy Picture Quote #1

In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates Picture Quote #1

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste Picture Quote #1

Refuse to write your life and you have no life Picture Quote #1

The world is full of mystery but it must not be choked with secrets: we must talk to one another Picture Quote #1

Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory Picture Quote #1

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The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything quieter as it fell, so that winter seemed to partake of religion in a way no other season did, hushed, solemn Picture Quote #1

I don’t write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know Picture Quote #1

You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied Picture Quote #1

If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport Picture Quote #1

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The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times Picture Quote #1

It’s always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see Picture Quote #1

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one’s life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical Picture Quote #1

Poverty didn’t necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency Picture Quote #1

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory Picture Quote #1

It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves Picture Quote #1

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A careful first draft is a failed first draft (Patricia Hampl Quotes) What is remembered is what becomes reality (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Memory is, first, a captivating mystery (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception (Patricia Hampl Quotes) We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that’s the implacable judgment of feeling. (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn’t itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines (Patricia Hampl Quotes) People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they’re in your subconscious, they are immortal (Patricia Hampl Quotes) You ca’ put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Coffee was a food in that house, not a drink (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Planes are my foxhole. I’m always on my knees in them (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Here, in memory, we live and die (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy (Patricia Hampl Quotes) In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Refuse to write your life and you have no life (Patricia Hampl Quotes) The world is full of mystery but it must not be choked with secrets: we must talk to one another (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory (Patricia Hampl Quotes) The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything quieter as it fell, so that winter seemed to partake of religion in a way no other season did, hushed, solemn (Patricia Hampl Quotes) I don’t write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know (Patricia Hampl Quotes) You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil (Patricia Hampl Quotes) 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 (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied (Patricia Hampl Quotes) If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport (Patricia Hampl Quotes) The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times (Patricia Hampl Quotes) It’s always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see (Patricia Hampl Quotes) We only store in memory images of value. To write about one’s life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Poverty didn’t necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency (Patricia Hampl Quotes) No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory (Patricia Hampl Quotes) It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves (Patricia Hampl Quotes)

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