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Jayne Anne Phillips has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
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The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.
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Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
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Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is…
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The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its…
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Talk between women friends is always therapy...
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If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's…
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Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.
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If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling.…
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When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.
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That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced…
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Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
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Every Super Bowl, I do different food each quarter from each of the hometowns of the teams competing. So I’m always hoping…
— Mario Batali
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People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.
— Dan Quayle
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The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true…
— Anthony Doerr
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Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know…
— John F. Kerry
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Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
— Jayne Anne Phillips
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I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I am aware that most 27-year-old writers do not co-host galas in their hometowns.
— Derek Blasberg
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Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
— Tadashi Yanai
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We spend our spare time taking care of little things. I can watch a little bit of college and professional football if…
— Kevin A. Ford
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