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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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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
— Chinua Achebe
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It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to…
— Russell Baker
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been…
— Albert Einstein
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I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the…
— Stephen King
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It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain…
— Archibald Rutledge
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It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and…
— Ernst Mayr
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I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my…
— Carl Jung
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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
— Albert Einstein
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I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made…
— Albert Einstein
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The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title
— Gene Tierney
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Id have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like…
— Josie Bissett
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