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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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The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when we are humble and good.…
— Anthony of Padua
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The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply.…
— Frank Laubach
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Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes…
— Sun Tzu
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Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up…
— Joy Hester
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The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.
— Robin Sharma
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A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.
— Deborah Wiles
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The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it…
— Ivan Turgenev
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises…
— Ajahn Chah
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Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at…
— George Eliot
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Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal,…
— Earl Weaver
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I think that we’re a culture that runs away from death, for good reason. Nobody really wants to think about the fact…
— Jon Foreman
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Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.
— Paulo Coelho
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