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

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



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is."

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.




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."

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: "Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself."

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.




Patricia Hampl Quotes: "Memory is, first, a captivating mystery."

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste."

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy."

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.




Patricia Hampl Quotes: "True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world"

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world



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."

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: "What is remembered is what becomes reality."

What is remembered is what becomes reality.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person."

Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "A careful first draft is a failed first draft"

A careful first draft is a failed first draft




Patricia Hampl Quotes: "Planes are my foxhole. I'm always on my knees in them."

Planes are my foxhole. I'm always on my knees in them.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "Here, in memory, we live and die."

Here, in memory, we live and die.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated."

landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil."

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



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "It's always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see."

It's always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all."

The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception."

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts."

French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell."

I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell.



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."

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: "Refuse to write your life and you have no life."

Refuse to write your life and you have no life.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates."

In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates.



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."

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

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



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."

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: "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."

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

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



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust."

Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool."

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story."

Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story.



Patricia Hampl Quotes: "The world is full of mystery but it must not be choked with secrets: we must talk to one another."

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."

Looking repeatedly into the past you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life but rather with the phenomenon of memory.