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I aspire to Isak Dinesen’s way: work a little every day, without hope and without despair. What a way to live! To make! To be!
Joyful Persistence: My Talk for the UBC School of Creative Writing Graduation
Sarah Leavittsarahleavitt.com
No way was I going to give up on my work simply because it wasn’t “working.” That wasn’t the point of it. The rewards could not come from the external results—I knew that. The rewards had to come from the joy of puzzling out the work itself, and from the private awareness I held that I had chosen a devotional path and I was being true to it. If
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