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Cheryl Strayed

출생: September 17, 1968 – Spangler, Pennsylvania, United States

Cheryl Strayed is an American memoirist, novelist, and essayist whose work explores grief, addiction, love, and self-discovery. She is best known for the memoir Wild and the essay collection Tiny Beautiful Things; Wild became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller and was adapted into an acclaimed film.

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Cheryl Strayed was born in Pennsylvania and came of age in rural northern Minnesota, where part of her adolescence unfolded in a house her mother and stepfather built without indoor plumbing, electricity, or running water. She earned a B.A. from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and later an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Syracuse University. In interviews, she has described college as the decisive shift that made a literary life seem imaginable, and graduate school as the period when the first half of her debut novel, Torch, took shape. ((https://www.vogue.com/article/into-the-woods-cheryl-strayed?utm_source=openai))

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Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves
-Wild
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The doctor didn’t say cancer—at least she didn’t hear him say it
-Torch
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The truth that lives there will eventually win out
-The Truth That Lives There
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Sugar is the temple I built in my obliterated place
-The Obliterated Place
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It’s so simple it breaks my heart
-The Ordinary Miraculous
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You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt
-A Big Life
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You’re here. So be here, dear one
-Your Invisible Inner Terrible Someone
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Acceptance. I had to accept the fact of the hour
-Cheryl Strayed Talks to Oprah About Walking Her Way to Peace

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"The New York Times Book Review called Cheryl Strayed's Wild "a literary and human triumph."

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"The Washington Post said Cheryl Strayed has "the ineffable gift every writer longs for."

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"People said Cheryl Strayed's language is "vivid, sharp and compelling."

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"Pam Houston called Cheryl Strayed "a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer."

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"The Minneapolis Star Tribune said Cheryl Strayed "proves a master of the little and the big."

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"The Boston Globe said Cheryl Strayed is "a formidable talent."

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"The Washington Post called Cheryl Strayed "a tough-love truth-teller."

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