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Tobias Wolff has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older…
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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
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Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened.…
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Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until…
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You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle…
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The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that…
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Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
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There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things…
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One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one…
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Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the…
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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing…
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music…
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Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
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The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.
— Omar Khayyam
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I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just…
— Ashley Scott
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I testify that our teacher, our shepherd, is Christ, our best friend, who clears up all our doubts. He heals our wounds…
— Unknown Author
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Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be…
— John Gibson Paton
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Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then…
— Peter De Vries
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Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.
— S. D Gordon
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