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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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Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.
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Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to…
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To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a…
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In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary…
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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…
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This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench!…
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high…
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