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Author - Patricia Hampl
Quotes by : Patricia Hampl
imagination
I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.
past
Looking repeatedly into the past you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life but rather....
history
History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of....
writing
You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.....
wounds
We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only....
writing life
To speak, to write , without charm is to make utterances without reference to a reality outside oneself.....
heals
Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret....
religious life
For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation....
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