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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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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
— Joan Didion
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Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance.…
— Howard Lyman
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For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane…
— John Murray
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But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world.…
— Peter Thiel
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Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through the agency of the aether are moved…
— Peter J. Carroll
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When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in…
— Jacques Ellul
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
— Immanuel Kant
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The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in…
— Claude Bernard
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I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing…
— Claude Bernard
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You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is…
— Elbert Hubbard
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