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Dani Shapiro
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 10
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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Traces that live within us often lead us to our stories
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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.
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We are tyrannized by our options.
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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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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.
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I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.
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Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.
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I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.
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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 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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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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If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.
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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'm an urban person who loves living in the country.
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There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around you, and it's very easy to get caught up in that stream and simply kind of keep on moving.
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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 was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way.
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Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.
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