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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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...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us…
— John of Kronstadt
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I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.
— Margaret Thatcher
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When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought…
— David Rockefeller
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If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
— Joan Didion
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From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55…
— Sophie Tucker
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It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are…
— Garrison Keillor
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The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents —…
— Frank Zappa
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Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been…
— Jonas Salk
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Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do…
— Stefan Molyneux
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While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more…
— James E. Faust
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I grew up in a good family with good parents, and I was able to dream big and have the support to…
— Liam Hemsworth
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