...We never set eyes on Fatima or our dog or the city we had known ever again. Like a body prematurely buried, unmourned withpot coffin or ceremony, our hasty untidy exit from Jerusalem was no way to have said goodbye to our home, our country and all that we knew and loved.

Ghada Karmi

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Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you.

Augusten Burroughs

Tags: humor memoir



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Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.

Jeffrey Rasley

Tags: memoir philanthropy mountains biography mountaineering tibet nepal expeditions himalayas three-cups-of-tea trekking



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In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.

Kevin Alan Lee

Tags: politics society philosophy psychology humanism memoir government medicine culture political-science psychiatry socialism health-care mental-illness schizophrenia medical reference health-care-system split-mind



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You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at the edge of the map ready to blow fire in your face if you strayed off course, to the edge of the known world.

Anne Roiphe

Tags: memoir 1950s anne-roiphe



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Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right.

Saloma Miller Furlong

Tags: inspirational memoir coming-of-age amish escape-from-the-amish



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Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)

Saloma Miller Furlong

Tags: inspirational memoir coming-of-age amish escape-from-the-amish



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The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners...

Natalie Goldberg

Tags: truth honesty memoir raw darkness-dawns



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It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Tags: memoir depression



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Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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