76 Quotes About Personal-essays
- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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Writing requires great skill, painstaking patience, and he ability to perceive and express observations in a unique manner.
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We each sketch the story of our lives. We tell other people whom we have become by making decisions how we carry out our daily affairs, how we confront personal crisis, and when we extend comfort to other people. By talking about our secret dreams, we reveal who we hope to become. Writing changes us. A sentence on paper reflects not only who we now are, but it also exposes who we used to be.
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A poet risks all in order to create a sought after image. A talented writer and poet exhibit the courage to follow his or her mind to whatever shaded places it craves to travel. Exploring darkness and lightness of the soul allows an artist to render an artistic statement of his or her being.
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The thing I most fear when writing is my paucity of ideas and the thinness of my emotional lining. I audaciously resolve to write about my greatest fears in an effort to transcend what I most despise about myself – intellectual and emotional poverty. Perchance by making use of all my thoughts and matrix of emotions – both positive and negative – I can escape the labyrinth constructed of my terrible ignorance of the world and an appalling lack of self-awareness.
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Writing is one method of presenting the troubling incidences and inexplicable episodes of life into a structured format for self-scrutiny. Writing my life story is an effort to learn from every vivid and every morbid encounter in life.
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A community of writers forges civilization. Future writers hold at their fingertips the psychic energy needed to propel us forward in the pursuit of universal justice. Writers’ meticulous observation of their surroundings spurs us to appreciate the impelling bouquets of beauty that rally us to declare the crispness of each day. Writers’ studious contemplation of their place in the world allows us to join them in admitting to the stochastic whimsy of a fateful life.
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Writing about personal struggles and a disorganized life responding to the chaotic tumult and toils of an individual life connects a person with the touchstone of all humanity.
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Telling our story enables a person to gain an enhanced perspective on life. I seek to employ the inherent vulnerability of narrative storytelling to discover how to live free of despair and anxiety, make an unconditional commitment to living a finite life without remorse and regret, and devote the remaining term of life to making a meaningful commitment to create a vivid testament that survives my physical demise.
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The more that I write the more vivid is my personal history of conducting a lonely battle with a demented self. The act of writing ramifies in my mind each episode in life that subtly altered my native composition. Writing my history in a narrative format allows me to perceive my extant life as a whole rather than as intervallic and disconnected happenings. Writing a chronological and episodic personal history enabled me to identify the thematic content of my unified personal story.
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