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You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
New York
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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
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