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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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Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
— James Callaghan
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Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels…
— Edvard Munch
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
— Damian Lewis
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I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.
— Kelly Reilly
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Biologically and temperamentally... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
— Benjamin Spock
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My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people…
— Joan Didion
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Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one.…
— Rob Lowe
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast…
— Madeleine Stowe
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