Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

What is remembered is what becomes reality.

- Patricia Hampl

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

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Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

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The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the h…

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We do not, after all, simply have experience; we are entrusted with it. We must do something--make something--with it. A story, we sense is the only …

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Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write …

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I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.

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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.

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I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

- Patricia Hampl