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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Aching
Hungry
Wait
Waiting
Speak
Writing
Something

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