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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: 77
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.
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Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
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In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.
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I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.
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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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The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.
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I honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us to love something for no reason. That's the best kind of love.
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If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
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Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
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Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
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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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I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
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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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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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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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I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.
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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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It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.
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When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.
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In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
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