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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, having 'material' for an essay means not only having something to write about but also having something interesting and original to say about whatever that might be.
- Tree
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people seem to want to read pieces that are shorter but not as short as the pieces they can read in small bites on the Internet. It may be that the sort of long essays are hitting a sweet spot between the tiny morsels online and the full-length book.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the essay. It's my favorite genre to work in.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our culture is so obsessed with the idea that you're going to go through a crisis or some difficult event and come out the other side a changed or improved person, and I just think that if you're honest, that often does not happen, and in fact, it shouldn't happen.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I probably shouldn't admit this, the activities and pursuits in which I've achieved any measure of success are, without exception, activities and pursuits that came easily to me from the beginning.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In about an 18-month period, my mother got sick and died, and then I had a freak illness less than a year later and almost died myself. And I found in both of those situations that there was this expectation to have a kind of transformative experience.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I respond to about a quarter of comments. It's a good barometer of my mental health - when I'm healthy and busy, I don't read them.
- Bread
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- Nov 07, 2020