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Tobias Wolff has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older…
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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
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Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened.…
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Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until…
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You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle…
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The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that…
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Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
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There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things…
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One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one…
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Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the…
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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing…
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some…
— Condoleezza Rice
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and…
— Winston Churchill
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
— Michel de Montaigne
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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not…
— Unknown Author
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He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle…
— Unknown Author
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...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and…
— Angela Merkel
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The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.
— William Shakespeare
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