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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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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
— John Cheever
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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…
— Joan Didion
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One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.
— Ruth Pitter
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We need to be homesick for heaven. Though we have never been there, we still have something God has built within us…
— Greg Laurie
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At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd…
— Orson Scott Card
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It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a…
— Jacques Derrida
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Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . .…
— John Cheever
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The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of…
— Samuel Marinus Zwemer
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Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.
— Hubert Van Zeller
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On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a…
— Charles Barkley
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Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no…
— Herta Muller
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