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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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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in…
— Aristophanes
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be…
— Hal Borland
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I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others…
— Tadao Ando
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
— Charles Lamb
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I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make…
— Oscar Wilde
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I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy.... Spiritual life, therefore, is…
— Unknown Author
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I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has…
— Aeschylus
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We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have…
— Scott Stevens
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As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of…
— Neville Bonner
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