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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
Natalie Goldberg
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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.
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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
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I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.
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In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
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