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We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.
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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
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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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