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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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Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all…
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But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and…
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And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and…
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The bluebells made such a pool that the earth had become like water, and all the trees and bushes seemed to have…
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What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited…
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Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and…
— Henry Hazlitt
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He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath,…
— Charles Dickens
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The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.
— Morena Baccarin
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
— William Gibson
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
— Immanuel Kant
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There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in…
— Alice Hoffman
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When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street…
— James Joyce
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