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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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Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream…
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There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what…
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The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail…
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She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take…
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Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."
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I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the…
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For every grand and finely worded statement by the CEO, the brand is also defined by derisory consumer comments overheard in a…
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All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?
— William S. Burroughs
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Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What…
— John Lanchester
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Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the…
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Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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