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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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In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
— Russell Baker
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OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,…
— C.S. Lewis
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As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from…
— Richard J. Foster
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I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book…
— Cyril Connolly
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Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.
— Carrie Fisher
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Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.
— Thurman Arnold
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Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy…
— Steve Almond
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Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.
— John Cowper Powys
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