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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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It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love…
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For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism…
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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West
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Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving…
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We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco…
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Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that…
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Then Drew shuffles into the dining hall. I drop my toast, and my mouth drifts open. Calling him “bruised” would be an…
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Fate is the one that shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who play. So the future of a man is…
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If it shuffles like a zombie, stinks like a zombie, and moans like a zombie, make sure it isn't your mom, then…
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