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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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If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority…
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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't…
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The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with…
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Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.
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We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
— Jacqueline Cochran
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Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and…
— Mick Dodson
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My sisters said, Why do you make those faces? You make yourself so ugly.
— Paul Lynde
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From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who…
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