Top 40 Pam Houston Quotes
#1. Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.
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#2. I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.
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#3. Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.
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#4. For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion ... even God."
"It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor."
"Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.
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#5. His name was Zeke, short for Ezekiel. She asked him if he was religious, he said only about certain things.
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#6. For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.
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#7. It would have been so perfectly ironic if I had been killed by the dog, because I was petting a dog who was not used to being pet, because I think I'm some kind of dog whisperer, and I think I can make any dog love me.
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#8. I write well on the road. I have the energy, I have the motivation to write. I'm happy when I'm on the road.
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#9. Writers, it is said, all carry a chip of ice in their hearts
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#11. People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.
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#12. I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.
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#13. Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination ... for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.
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#14. Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
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#15. I will never regret not having children. What I regret is that I live in a world where in spite of everything, that decision is still not quite okay.
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#16. When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.
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#17. I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.
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#18. I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.
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#19. Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.
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#20. My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.
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#21. It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.
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#22. Give me a labyrinth to walk and I can usually free my mind.
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#23. Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.
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#24. If a situation requires swearing to God it is - by definition - extreme.
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#25. When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.
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#26. I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.
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#27. There was something about the prairie for me - it wasn't where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn't ever stop living under that big sky.
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#28. One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.
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#29. I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to other stuff I've noticed and seeing what happens.
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#30. Do you write novels?" I said.
"Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.
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#31. Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.
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#32. We are up in the attic doing a jigsaw puzzle, which may be the single fastest way one OCD person reveals herself to another.
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#33. The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.
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#34. Sometimes I'm writing for magazines on assignment, but the university has to be patient with me. I mean, during the ten-week periods that I have a class, I'm there every Thursday night or whatever it is, but sometimes that's all I'm there, because I'm somewhere else the rest of the time.
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#35. I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings ...
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#36. I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.
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#37. I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I've been there a lot over the twenty years.
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#38. Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.
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#39. I'm always out looking for weird, beautiful things.
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#40. The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.
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