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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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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave…
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the…
— Barbara Holland
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Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou…
— William Shakespeare
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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
— Mark Twain
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…
— Louis Agassiz
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Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.
— Monty Woolley
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Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not…
— Thomas Paine
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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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