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One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

~Cheryl Strayed

Topics: Any Bored Fun Head Make Monotonous One Thing Really Sometimes Tedious Tell Thing Will You Your

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My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.

~Cheryl Strayed

Topics: Advice Been Concept Friend Giver Had Know Listens Messed Messed Up Nobody People Person Realized Sure Then Therapist Thick Turn Up Who You

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Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.

~Cheryl Strayed

Topics: Advice Began Cafe Chatting Column Conversation Could Course Dear Fact Her In Fact Next Once Our Painful Portland Read Recommend She Site Strongly Sugar Table Tell Visit Web Web Site Woman

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Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

~Cheryl Strayed

Topics: Error Hard Hard Work Intuition Mostly Part Trial Trial And Error Very Work Writing

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I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

~Cheryl Strayed

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My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

~Cheryl Strayed

Topics: Died Ended Life Mom Sort Whole

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My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

~Cheryl Strayed

Topics: Accepted Come Death Exist Grown Her Keep Me Most Mother Pieces Put Savage Self Terms Touch Up

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My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

~Cheryl Strayed

Topics: Abandoned Animal Animals Brought Encountered Her Home Hundreds Injured Life Mother Needy Saved She Wherever

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A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

~Cheryl Strayed

Topics: About Adventures Away Difference Fun Go Happened Hard Have Fun Having Impulse Lot Makes Off People Perspective Really Right Right Away Some Them Write

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I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

~Cheryl Strayed

Topics: Both Human Learned Much Writer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 17th, 1968

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