- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
- Familiarity Breeds
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- Nov 07, 2020
With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever), the best thing to do is to go to the racetrack, a horse show, a rodeo, or some other horsey activity, and watch the horses. Familiarize yourself with the way they move and behave themselves.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
- Oh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was paranoid about my safety.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.
- Frequently
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are quite frequently eccentric.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020