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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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In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large…
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I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you…
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I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a…
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Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the…
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I've got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind…
— Rebel Wilson
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Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and…
— Jimmy Carter
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I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.
— Unknown Author
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I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen…
— Arsene Wenger
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I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine,…
— Ozzy Osbourne
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Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms…
— David Hockney
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It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical.…
— Gloria Swanson
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