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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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Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.
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I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
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Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but…
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It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a…
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As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance…
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It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water…
— Mehmet Oz
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...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
— Anne Frank
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