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Your Life Is a Line, Not a Circle

Your Life Is a Line, Not a Circle

If your life is a line, then today is VERY important.

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Pierce Taylor Hibbs
Jul 08, 2022
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Your Life Is a Line, Not a Circle
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Great writers can shift our perspective, help us see what we wouldn’t or couldn’t see before. I had this experience the other day with an E. B. White essay. And what I saw crystalized into a truth: life is a line, not a circle. I’ll give you the words from E. B. White first, and then tell you what I mean.

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