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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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Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
— Yoko Ono
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Hagen said that no-one remembers who finished second. But they still ask me if I ever think about that putt I missed…
— Doug Sanders
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Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality.
— George Benson
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A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.
— Margaret Bourke-White
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The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making…
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
— Edmund Hillary
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No one remembers you for standing in the crowd . But they do remember you for standing out of it.
— Eddie Harris
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No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.
— Jason Calacanis
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When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day.
— Sam Ewing
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What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
— Bertrand Russell
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If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim…
— Miroslav Volf
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