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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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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption…
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For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would…
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The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily,…
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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to…
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When John was with me, it was total commitment. Whatever he did outside our relationship didn't seem very important. We were together…
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At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared…
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you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve…
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Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I…
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