If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.

Patricia Amis

Stichwörter: inspirational memoir christian-living



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Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

Stephen King

Stichwörter: on-writing memoir craft instruction-book



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Suicide is a form of murder— premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes some getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

It’s important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there’s a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there’s a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there’s a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.

The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. Anything I thought or did was immediately drawn into the debate. Made a stupid remark—why not kill myself? Missed the bus—better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie—maybe I shouldn’t kill myself.

In reality, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

Susanna Kaysen

Stichwörter: memoir adaptation mental-illness



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The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.

M.C. Halliday

Stichwörter: memoir historical erotica



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Stichwörter: murder fitting-in memoir bullying italian discrimination nonfiction bully true-crime boston boston-harbor boston-history castle-island cirignano dorchester drinking-and-driving forced-busing gas-shortage irish-mob osracism south-boston southie whitey-bulger



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Where are you from? New York?"
"Weird you picked up on that," she said, "I've been gone from there for so long."
Like a couple of decades could dilute that accent.

Cathie Beck

Stichwörter: humor friendship memoir cheap-cabernet-a-friendship



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Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go. They remind us of how to be human, how to live alongside the other lives that animate this planet. ... When we lose stories, our understanding of the world is less rich, less true.

Susan J. Tweit

Stichwörter: nature stories memoir



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I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder.

Jena Morrow

Stichwörter: self-help memoir anorexia eating-disorders



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I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.

Koren Zailckas

Stichwörter: family writing-craft emotions emotion memoir writing-life writing-process writing-from-the-heart families family-therapy writing-style



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A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.

Guy Sajer

Stichwörter: world-war-ii memoir third-reich



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