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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that…
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing…
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves…
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Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress…
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about,…
— Russell Baker
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When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age,…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the…
— Fidel Castro
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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
— Irvin S. Cobb
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by…
— Aberjhani
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The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.
— Henry James Byron
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I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.
— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.
— George Burns
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I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are…
— Yoko Ono
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Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it…
— Rajneesh
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Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found…
— Benjamin Franklin
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