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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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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
— Aristotle
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as…
— Teresa of Avila
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I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.
— Juliette Binoche
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had…
— Michael Caine
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The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause…
— Michael Chertoff
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According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects…
— Charles Francis Richter
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The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble christian, for [that Christian] is just the opposite of [the devil's] own…
— Unknown Author
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It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition…
— Theodore Dwight Weld
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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the…
— Blaise Pascal
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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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