I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because … - Leigh Newman

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It was like a family reunion, watching the movie. It's always a good feeling when I can get a screening for my family.

Leigh Newman

I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird need to write a good story. But once I was done, I did feel better about myself. Not better, just calmer. Because a tremendous onus had been lifted off my day-to-day.

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Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

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The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort.

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While you can't keep your heart from getting broken, you can stop breaking your own heart. . . once you realize the difference between what you can control and what you can't, and that it's far, far more fun to lavish all that attention on your own self-worth.

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If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

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Most dreams are also part reality (otherwise we wouldn’t believe them), and reality happens to be a condition that gives you plenty of chances through your life to rise to - no, soar through - the occasion.

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