Ariel Gore Quotes - Page 2

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• In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

  Ariel Gore

  Happiness, Block, Home

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• I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

  Ariel Gore

  Happiness, Thinking, Depth

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• It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

  Ariel Gore

  Sex, Writing, Burritos

  Ariel Gore (2007). “How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights”, p.41, Three Rivers Press

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• New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.

  Ariel Gore

  Reality, Mind, Matter

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• One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

  Ariel Gore

  Block, Self, Flow

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• Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

  Ariel Gore

  Writing, People, Made

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• I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

  Ariel Gore

  Mother, Years, Narcissist

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• Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

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  Married, Reason, Walking Out

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• Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

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  Land, People, Tradition

  Ariel Gore (2003). “Atlas of the Human Heart”, p.19, Seal Press

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