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Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.

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Dani Shapiro
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 10
Author
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New York City
New York
Bigs
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Familial
Love
Richness
Hearted
Michael
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I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]
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As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?
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I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.
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Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.
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The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home and the wife is the one who drags herself and her children to whatever spiritual center they're going to.
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I remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking This is the end of solitude in the back of a taxi. What used to happen in the back of a taxi? You looked out the window. My brain has become less able to spend lengths of time without shifting, and I worry about that.
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We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.
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If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.
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My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.
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I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.
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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt it has to be creative.
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In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.
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We don't choose what's going to wake us up.
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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art
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What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.
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I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
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When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to the end of a piece of work, of making it as good as you can at that moment, is more of a relief than anything else, and then you wait for reviews.
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