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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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Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and…
— Dan Brown
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If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the…
— Laurel Clark
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
— J. William Fulbright
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We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and…
— Chester W. Nimitz
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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…
— Joan Didion
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My friends drink everywhere. They even drink at the laundromat. I tried drinking at the laundromat, and I thought I was in…
— Mike Birbiglia
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Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the…
— Unknown Author
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon…
— David Berlinski
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If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not…
— Prince Philip
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With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of…
— Nikola Tesla
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Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.
— Denis Waitley
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