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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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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can…
— Martha Beck
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All our losses and sufferings will be made up to us in the resurrection.
— Bruce R. McConkie
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Our losses... have reached and intolerable level.
— Karl Donitz
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We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can
— Carrie Jones
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...Our losses...have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.
— Karl Donitz
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It is harder to cut our gains than our losses.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
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There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes…
— Richard Henry Stoddard
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Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.
— Publilius Syrus
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Our lives are full of separations that shake us up, force us to attend to our emotional selves and to learn new…
— Susan L. Taylor
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We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.
— John Christopher
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We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have…
— Susan Fletcher
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