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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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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the…
— William Blake
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that…
— Bobby Knight
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I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will…
— Amy Chua
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I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
— Susannah York
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I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean,…
— Mark Twain
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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But…
— George Sweeting
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As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some…
— Elizabeth Kenny
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I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.
— Bernard Ebbers
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Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
— Louis XIV
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I lost my temper on stage.
— Michael Richards
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I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.
— Dirk Bogarde
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