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Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key,…
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Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative…
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Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.
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Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into…
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed,…
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If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but…
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Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
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If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that…
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On a good day I write, all day.
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That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.
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When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.
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Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over…
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I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long…
— Bill McKibben
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I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.
— Annie Dillard
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The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent…
— Isak Dinesen
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I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.
— Paul Harding
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I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss.…
— Sebastian Faulks
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But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising…
— Jaimal Yogis
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I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..
— Bill Ayers
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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
— Black Elk
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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I…
— Clive Barker
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I…
— J R Ward
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