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I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent ni...

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Anne LamottHelp Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing onesel...

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The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereo...

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You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how compl...

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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

We are called at certain moments to comfort people who are enduring some trauma. Many of us don't kn...

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I could say it was the nights when I was lonelyand you were the only one who'd talk.I could tell you...

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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...

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Amory had rather a Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it--later in life he almost completely...

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Call the world, if you please, "the Vale of Soul Making". Then you will find out the use of the worl...

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Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even ...

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Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a le...

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You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, th...

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