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Daneile Joyce "Dani" Shapiro (born April 10, 1962) is an American writer who is the author of five novels and the best-selling memoirs Slow Motion and Devotion. She has also written for magazines such as The New Yorker, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, and ELLE.

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What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

Bedrock, Essential, Essentials, Important, Life, Spiritual

It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.

World, Way, Urban, Easier, Cast

I'll have my students try to follow their minds during the course of a day, just to see the way their minds work, the way our minds hop from thing to thing to thing. The Internet mirrors that to such a degree you can actually see it. Show me your search history and I'll show you who you are.

History, Mind, Mirrors, See, Show, Trying

I remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking "This is the end of solitude in the back of a taxi. " What used to happen in the back of a taxi? You looked out the window. My brain has become less able to spend lengths of time without shifting, and I worry about that.

New York, Phones, Spend, Thinking, Time, Window

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

Across, Down, Feelings, Notebook, Page, Pages

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.

Heartache, Pain, Protect

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away. The truth is in the present moment. The great paradox is that when I'm really able to do that, time slows down and opens up. Time feels suddenly and inexplicably without end.

Moment, Opens, Past, Slows, Want, Wish

Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.

Creating, Literature, Overly, Overrated, Right, Struggle

I'm very disciplined, but the one thing that I have addictive behavior about is the Internet.

Internet, Behavior, One Thing, Thing, Disciplined

Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

Book, Husband, Strange, Watching, Way

Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment.

Divine, Given, Moments, Possibility, Recognize

Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.

Bigs, Book, Richness, Wise, Written

My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.

Garbage Cans, House, Journals, Stuff, Understood, Writing

When I was starting out there was no Internet, there wasn't this sense that you could be connected to other writers around the world. And that created a kind of innocence, or parochial quality, even in NYC.

Nyc, Quality, World, Starting, Parochial

My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.

Body, Born, Fourteen, Heart, Son, Would Be

Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

Mean, Practice, Religious, Thinking, Title

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]

Childhood, Extraordinarily, Mother, Scorching, Trying

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

Duck, Ducks, Hand, Hands, Mind, Tendency

With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age—are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.

Alive, Memories, Middle, Moving, Uplifting

The truth is in the present moment.

Moment, Moments, Present, Present Moment, Truth, Truth Is

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