But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
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It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
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If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
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Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
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I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'
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A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.
Tags: influence, quality, people, life
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