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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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If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
— Jean Cocteau
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After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been…
— Adoniram Judson
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We must strive to move forward in life, by acknowledging the forces that are thrusted upon ourselves by means of fear, and…
— Carrot Top
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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
— Sharon Salzberg
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To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
— Laozi
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Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows…
— Philip Roth
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You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone
— Adrien Brody
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Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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Only in death will I relinquish my belts.
— Manny Pacquiao
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Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and…
— Laozi
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Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to…
— Socrates
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