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“I think I have given up on having one character arc or being able to make sense of it all as a unity. I'm trying to get lost in whatever work presents itself on a given day, and if it doesn't add up to anything coherent, that's fine.”

-Sasha Chapin

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[Folio] These Precious Days, by Ann Patchett | Harper's Magazine

Ann Patchett harpers.org

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I suppose this is what I mean when I say we cannot possibly know what will manifest in our lives. We live and have experiences and leave people we love and get left by them. People we thought would be with us forever aren’t and people we didn’t know would come into our lives do. Our work here is to keep faith with that, to put it in a box and wait.

Cheryl Strayed • Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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I was creative and I was curious and there was a propulsiveness to my life—I was completely engaged in forward motion—yet I had no specific direction.

Jami Attenberg • I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

This is a model for how indirect effect can be, how delayed, how invisible; no one is more hopeful than a writer, no one is a bigger gambler.

Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

This is a model for how indirect effect can be, how delayed, how invisible; no one is more hopeful than a writer, no one is a bigger gambler.

Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

We are all engaged in two projects: living life, and telling stories about it. Our lives as lived are often chaotic, jumbled, aimless. They suggest no obvious purpose. Think of William James’s “blooming, buzzing confusion,” or what Joan Didion called “the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.” We make this chaos workable, as Didio... See more

Jake Orthwein • Why Frame Problems? — Frame Problems

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I suppose this is what I meant when I wrote what I did, sweet pea, about how it is we cannot possibly know what will manifest in our lives. We live and have experiences and leave people we love and get left by them. People we thought would be with us forever aren’t and people we didn’t know would come into our lives do. Our work here is to keep fa

cheryl strayed • Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

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