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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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(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.
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Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly…
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Oh, for five hundred Elijahs, each one upon his Carmel , crying unto God, and we should soon have the clouds bursting…
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Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl…
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My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted…
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So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself…
— Bible
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I had a girlfriend at college and she called me up and said, 'Let's go camping'. She was the first girl to…
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This is Carmel
— Marshall Lee
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