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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it…
— Stephen Halbrook
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I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed…
— Margaret Atwood
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The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it…
— Susan Sontag
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I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.
— Asghar Farhadi
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Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own…
— James Earl Jones
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In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what…
— Joan Didion
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I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was…
— William Julius Wilson
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