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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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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't.…
— Michael Robotham
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History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
— Laurence Overmire
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The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about…
— Tom Brown, Jr.
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Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends…
— Austin Kleon
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In 1650 Bishop Ussher dated the creation from the genealogy given in the Bible at 4004 B.C.; for a long time (even…
— Leigh Page
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Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her…
— Rebecca Solnit
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The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then…
— Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
— Daniel Dennett
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There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things…
— Henry Louis Gates
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The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.
— Joan Didion
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