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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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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a…
— Otto von Bismarck
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Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe.…
— Jean Meslier
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I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.
— Linda McCartney
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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible…
— Aldo Leopold
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Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.
— Susan Vreeland
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Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely…
— Peter Thiel
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I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Tom [Cargil]s suggestion with a further idea: Propsers of new [C++] features should be required to donate a kidney. That would -…
— Bjarne Stroustrup
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We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by…
— May Sarton
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Really think hard about what you want to do, because when you're doing what you want to do is probably when you'll…
— Rush Limbaugh
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I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.
— Alyson Hannigan
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