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“ To speak, to write , without charm is to make utterances without reference to a reality outside oneself. It is an act devoid of the playfulness of art, without the attractive humility of one who know absolutely that others exist and therefore feels drawn to please them, because to give them an instant of pleasure is to acknowledge their existence. ”

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You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.

~ Patricia Hampl

Patricia Hampl Writing

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

~ Patricia Hampl

Patricia Hampl Imagination Knowledge Memory Writing

Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied.

~ Patricia Hampl

Patricia Hampl Heals Memoir Time

History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of fortunes and cultures. It was the litany of loss, attended by the inevitable sympathy for the vanquished side. The past was always the underdog, and we sensed it was only right to be on its side against the bully future. We were left with the impression that our own grip was loosening on some essential pediment as one empire after another was swallowed up, and the centuries collapsed into our own.

~ Patricia Hampl

Patricia Hampl History