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It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
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When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
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When you are present, the world is truly alive.
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The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.
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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
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When you write, don't say, I'm going to write a poem. That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself say, I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.
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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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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
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It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.
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