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Tobias Wolff has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older…
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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
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Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened.…
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Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until…
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You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle…
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The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that…
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Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
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There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things…
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One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one…
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Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the…
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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing…
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It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough…
— Unknown Author
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I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should,…
— Alfred Nobel
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Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness by promising that he…
— Henri de Mondeville
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But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential…
— Tobias Wolff
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
— H. L. Mencken
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Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?
— Jude Deveraux
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Nico di Angelo came into Olympus to a hero's welcome, his father right behind him, despite the fact that Hades was only…
— Rick Riordan
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To all the girls who are in a hurry to have a boyfriend or get married, a piece of Biblical advice: Ruth…
— Rachel Copeland
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Never judge a man by his relatives; he didnt choose them.
— Vikrant Parsai
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Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second,…
— The Talmud
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A poor man is shunned by all his relatives - how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he pursues them…
— Bible
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