[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fjAXoUND5758uH0doBgU5TItLYUmRIWDFb1lToFAdESI":3,"$fwPQYaGrSPFOxu_nkQB3rTaw19uCN-2H-CuXCwb56rdo":16},{"author":4,"tags":11},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":9,"bio_jsonld":9,"slug":10,"image_url":9},5137,"Catherine Drinker Bowen","C",36,null,"catherine-drinker-bowen",[12],{"tag_id":13,"tag_name":14,"tag_count":15},60,"writing",6,{"quotes":17,"pagination":87},[18,26,33,39,45,51,57,63,69,76],{"id":19,"quote_text":20,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":23,"source":24,"quote_tag":25,"commentary":9},3595243,"Will the reader turn the page?",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":27,"quote_text":28,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":29,"source":30,"quote_tag":31,"commentary":32},3595239,"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nCatherine Drinker Bowen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and historian, penned these words likely in her book, \"Drawn from Memory: A Memoir,\" which was published in 1994. At the time of writing, Bowen was reflecting on her life's work and relationships, having navigated the highs and lows of her career as a writer and historian.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nOn the surface, this quote appears to be a commentary on the value of authenticity in friendships. However, upon closer examination, it reveals a more nuanced truth: that our capacity for vulnerability and openness is what makes us attractive as friends. Bowen suggests that it's not the self-contained individuals who are never flawed or struggling that we gravitate towards, but rather those who are willing to be imperfect and show their true selves.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo cultivate meaningful relationships in your professional life, strive to be a \"flawed friend\" by embracing your vulnerabilities and sharing them with others. By doing so, you'll create space for genuine connections and collaboration that can lead to deeper understanding and more effective teamwork.",{"id":34,"quote_text":35,"author_id":5,"source_id":15,"has_image":22,"author":36,"source":37,"quote_tag":38,"commentary":9},2916839,"People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong – they may be mistaken.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":40,"quote_text":41,"author_id":5,"source_id":15,"has_image":22,"author":42,"source":43,"quote_tag":44,"commentary":9},2916836,"A woman’s biography – with about eight famous historical exceptions – so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":46,"quote_text":47,"author_id":5,"source_id":15,"has_image":22,"author":48,"source":49,"quote_tag":50,"commentary":9},2916800,"It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace – the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":52,"quote_text":53,"author_id":5,"source_id":15,"has_image":22,"author":54,"source":55,"quote_tag":56,"commentary":9},2916787,"All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone – my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music – ensemble music, not soloism – we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":58,"quote_text":59,"author_id":5,"source_id":15,"has_image":22,"author":60,"source":61,"quote_tag":62,"commentary":9},2916764,"Chamber music – a conversation between friends.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":64,"quote_text":65,"author_id":5,"source_id":15,"has_image":22,"author":66,"source":67,"quote_tag":68,"commentary":9},2916737,"In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn’t be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":70,"quote_text":71,"author_id":5,"source_id":72,"has_image":22,"author":73,"source":74,"quote_tag":75,"commentary":9},989029,"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.",4,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":77,"quote_text":78,"author_id":5,"source_id":72,"has_image":22,"author":79,"source":80,"quote_tag":81,"commentary":9},989025,"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. 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