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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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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
— Joan Didion
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The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation.…
— Robert D. Hales
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At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.
— Tony Dungy
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We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but…
— Alex Ferguson
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...We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in…
— M. Russell Ballard
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I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity…
— Michael Mann
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It was our preparation, knowledge and experience that kept us alive.
— Unknown Author
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