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

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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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Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.
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Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.
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Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.
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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
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One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.
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When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.
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After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter the act of writing does.
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We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
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So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst kind. If someone writes something great, it's just more clarity in the world for all of us.
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First thoughts have tremendous energy. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts, thoughts on thought, twice and three times removed from the direct connection of the first fresh flash.
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Wherein we discover that many of the rules for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think.
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If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.
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