Quotes by Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate

… I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act I no longer felt sure, but of the dignity of its intransigence I was convinced.

Moral

Suicidal

Suicide

A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

Confusion

Darkness

Lonely

Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.

Confession

Narrators

Trustworthy

Contradictory strands create an essay that’s richly ambivalent.

Ambivalent

Contradictory

Essays

Domesticity has been a challenge for me but painful as it’s been, engaging with family has been a school for reducing solipsism and increasing my understanding of people’s different reactions to stress.

People

School

Stress

Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly second-guessing myself. My mind is filled with ‘yes, buts,’ ‘so whats?’ and other skeptical rejoinders. I am forever monitoring myself for traces of folly, insensitivity, arrogance, false humility, cruelty, stupidity, immaturity and, guess what, I keep finding examples. Age has not made me wiser, except maybe in retrospect.

Forever

Humility

Writing

For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I’m not so sure that’s always my first priority.

Firsts

Impact

Priorities

Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer’s and reader’s experience.

Fun

Having Fun

Writing

Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

Difficult

Hedonism

Rational

I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.

Enough

Judgment

Secret

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Able

Adults

Ambivalent

Appreciation

Beach

Bent

Brain

Breakfast

Children

Cities

Citizens

Confession

Conflict

Confusion

Contradictory

Conversation

Creativity

Darkness

Daughter

Desirable

Difficult

Dilemma

Dinner

Discrimination

Effort

Endure

Enough

Essays

Example

Expectations

Firsts

Forever

Fortunate

Fun

Having Fun

Hedonism

Honesty

Humility

Impact

Important

Judgment

Lonely

Lying

Might

Mind

Moral

My Family

Names

Narrators

Needs

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Quotes by Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate

… I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act I no longer felt sure, but of the dignity of its intransigence I was convinced.

A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.

Contradictory strands create an essay that’s richly ambivalent.

Domesticity has been a challenge for me but painful as it’s been, engaging with family has been a school for reducing solipsism and increasing my understanding of people’s different reactions to stress.

For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I’m not so sure that’s always my first priority.

Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer’s and reader’s experience.

Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.

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