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Tobias Wolff has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older…
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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
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Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened.…
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Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until…
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You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle…
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The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that…
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Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
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There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things…
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One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one…
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Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the…
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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing…
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Whenever your well-being feels at risk around certain people, make a tactful and swift exit.
— Judith Orloff
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I'm honest. I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have…
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Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do…
— Frank Medlicott
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Empathically accurate perceivers are those who are consistently good at 'reading' other people's thoughts and feelings. All else being equal, they are…
— William Ickes
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Sometimes I can be tactful and sometimes not. It all depends on the mood I'm in.
— Melanie Brown
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Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
— Earl Tupper
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Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
— Cecil Beaton
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I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much…
— Tobias Wolff
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No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
— Zaha Hadid
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Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming…
— David Letterman
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Talk about tactful - she's got a tongue like a Kalashnikov!
— Steve Fowler
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The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
— James Cash Penney
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