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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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Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I…
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For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks…
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Their words of encouragement were just what I needed. I was doing a great job, and I appreciated their cheers. I felt…
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So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.
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I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.
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When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things…
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Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those…
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What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by…
— Geoffrey Rush
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My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
— Steven Spielberg
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Which is weird. But not the craziest thing I can think of Rose doing.สบ I appreciated the support.
— Richelle Mead
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In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the…
— Joan Didion
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