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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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I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start…
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O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman…
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I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came…
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When I was a teenager, I was so dumb my mamma knocked me off the porch with a broom. You wish you…
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It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When…
— James J. Braddock
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I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't…
— Sugar Ray Leonard
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Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me…
— Frank Robinson
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Tonight, when we were eating dinner, Marta said something that really knocked me for a loop. She said, "I love carrots." "Good,"…
— Jack Handey
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The indictment knocked me on the head. First of all, I hand no idea at all about 90 per cent of the…
— Alfred Jodl
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Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard…
— Kathy Mattea
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They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I…
— Gregory Corso
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For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie…
— Adam McKay
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