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I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.


Jami Attenberg

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CRISS JAMI Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christiani...
CRISS JAMI The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
CRISS JAMI When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, se...
CRISS JAMI Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without bei...
CRISS JAMI How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of a...
CRISS JAMI Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual,...
CRISS JAMI Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already c...
CRISS JAMI The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic li...
CRISS JAMI Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territori...
CRISS JAMI At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'l...
CRISS JAMI There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough ...
CRISS JAMI The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the car...
CRISS JAMI The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
CRISS JAMI Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love ...
CRISS JAMI It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salari...
CRISS JAMI If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
CRISS JAMI Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman ...
CRISS JAMI Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceiv...
CRISS JAMI It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside ar...
CRISS JAMI Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marve...
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