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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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Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone…
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Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds…
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Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom…
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Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?
— Robert Breault
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent…
— Unknown Author
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I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.
— Fiona Apple
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You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of…
— Li Bai
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Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I'm not much of a beer drinker, you know what I drink? Peach wine coolers.
— Joe Teti
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The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly…
— John Ruskin
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