"It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive."

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Source : Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.88, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Dani Shapiro

#Dream Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.”
“Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his faults. If you want to improve a person, help him embrace a higher working goal-a standard, an ideal-and he will do his own 'making over' far more effectively than you can do it for him.”
“... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.”
“Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.”
“of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.”
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.”
“Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.”
“My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.”

Source : Margot Asquith (1963). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith: Vol. two”

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