#memoir

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In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's almost as if, regardless of your kingdom, the smaller your size & the earlier your place on the tree of life, the more critical is your niche on Earth: snails & worms create soil, & blue-green algae create oxygen; mammals seem comparatively dispensable, the result of the random path of evolution over a luxurious amount of time.


Elisabeth Tova Bailey


#natural-history #non-fiction #life

The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress


Sabrina Jeffries


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Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.


Mark Vonnegut


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Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.


Meghan O'Rourke


#need #want #memoir

My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.


Gabrielle Zevin


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Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.


Kay Redfield Jamison


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That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.


Alison Bechdel


#dissect #else #figured #gender #going

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.


Oswald Spengler


#memoir #recovery #suicide #surviving #transformation

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.


Carly Fiorina


#i #memoir #novelist #only #well

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.


Jeannette Walls


#aspects #being #careful #challenging #else