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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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The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do…
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Even talking about change can be threatening to entrenched interests...Careers in the Pentagon, the board room, or the halls of Congress are…
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Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.
— Taiichi Ohno
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It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and…
— Mark Buchanan
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My second piece of advice is to stay global. As the world continues to change and we become more connected to each…
— Barack Obama
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In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in…
— Mark Mirabello
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We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our…
— Carl Pope
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The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the…
— Bill Vaughan
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The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and…
— Ronald Reagan
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If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in…
— Michael Franti
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prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if…
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