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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come…
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Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
— Jean Paul
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
— Boris Pasternak
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One line on the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines. They'll be…
— Unknown Author
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I have had my fill of words and tearful farewells,
— Gannicus
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Build traditions in your families that will bring you together, for they can demonstrate your devotion, love, and support for one another.…
— L. Tom Perry
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No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.
— Matsuri Hino
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It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.
— Charles Tennyson Turner
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But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed,…
— Sarah Dessen
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This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its…
— Margaret Atwood
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and…
— Khalil Gibran
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