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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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We imagine things — that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. ... We have no choice,…
— Joan Didion
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When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture...…
— Seth Godin
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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to…
— Richard P. Feynman
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I believe that dreamers who simply imagine things that would be nice but are not possible don’t sufficiently appreciate the laws of…
— Ray Dalio
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Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are.…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos.…
— Gaston Bachelard
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I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine…
— Karen Gillan
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Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I…
— Neil Gaiman
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be…
— Isaac Newton
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To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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