Herself
“of famous people, told me his hardest work came in making them interesting “afterwards.” People only want to read about their upward climb. “Once they’ve made it, forget it. Or if they’re ha-appy.” He snarled the word, with the artisan’s hatred for poor material. I heard it drag its peacock feathers in the dust.
A sense of loving and being loved doesn’t change one’s “nature.” It gives men and women what it gives children—a confidence in what they are. And more openness in being it.
Memoirs, I s...ee now, aren’t formal compositions of what you remember—and what you care to say of it. A memoir is your own trembling review of what you did and do—what you can bear to say of it. In so much of my life, as here and now, the saying is the act. In varying shades of distinctness, it is my public life. No matter how private it seems.
No life can be seen in a straight line, even afterwards. From the first, my stories and novels took this for granted. As I gained “worldly”MoreLess
A sense of loving and being loved doesn’t change one’s “nature.” It gives men and women what it gives children—a confidence in what they are. And more openness in being it.
Memoirs, I s...ee now, aren’t formal compositions of what you remember—and what you care to say of it. A memoir is your own trembling review of what you did and do—what you can bear to say of it. In so much of my life, as here and now, the saying is the act. In varying shades of distinctness, it is my public life. No matter how private it seems.
No life can be seen in a straight line, even afterwards. From the first, my stories and novels took this for granted. As I gained “worldly”MoreLess
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