“ Looking repeatedly into the past you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life but rather with the phenomenon of memory. Patricia Hampl
“ To speak, to write , without charm is to make utterances without reference to a reality outside oneself. It is an act devoid of the playfulness of art, without the attractive humility of one who know… Patricia Hampl
“ We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us ... we are doing the work of memo… Patricia Hampl
“ History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of fortunes and cultures. It was the litany of loss, attended by the inevitable s… Patricia Hampl
“ For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a thought unfurls, figures of speech budding and blossoming, articulation drifting… Patricia Hampl
“ Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt… Patricia Hampl
“ You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil. Patricia Hampl
