Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Anne Lamott (b. 1954) American novelist and non-fiction writer
Post (2015-04-08), Facebook
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Reprinted in her essay (2015-04-10), "Anne Lamott shares all that she knows," Salon.
Collected in Almost Everything, ch. 4 "Unplugged" (2018). (The quote is the full chapter.)
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We can’t start over again, and it wouldn’t “be perfect” if we could. We can only continue.
Theodore Isaac Rubin (1923-2019) American psychiatrist and author
Compassion and Self Hate: An Alternative to Despair, Part 2 (1975)
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ANTONIO: We all were sea-swallowed, though some cast again,
And by that destiny to perform an act
Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come
In yours and my discharge.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Tempest, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 287ff (2.1.287-290) (1611)
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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) American writer
Lonely on the Mountain, ch. 1, opening paragraph (1980)
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