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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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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity…
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When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize…
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I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.
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In a church of my own we're perfect together I recognize you in the stained glass.
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I recognize that by saying that I'm deeply sorry, it might not be enough and sufficient to address the pain and the…
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that…
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I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and…
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At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole…
— Georges Cuvier
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I recognize thart even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
— Odilon Redon
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I recognize no empire of this present age.
— Unknown Author
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