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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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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events…
— Albert Einstein
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made…
— William Hazlitt
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not…
— Charlton Heston
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My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the…
— Fran Lebowitz
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Diverse groups of problem solvers outperformed the groups of the best individuals at solving complex problems. The reason: the diverse groups got…
— Scott E. Page
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Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard…
— Cherie Priest
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Go through detailed variations in your own time, think in a general way about the position in the opponent's time and you…
— Alexander Kotov
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Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn…
— Westbrook Pegler
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If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.
— Robert Breault
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To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally…
— Robert Grudin
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