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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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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are…
— Alexander Pope
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You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of…
— Swami Vivekananda
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...There's a lot more to be gained from being grateful than you might think. Managing your outlook towards appreciation and thankfulness feeds…
— Price Pritchett
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I am fascinated with times past.
— Frank Darabont
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The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now,…
— Robert Moss
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The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced…
— Gustav Stresemann
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In times past...it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and…
— Benjamin Tucker
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In times past, knowledge of the bowel was more widespread and people were taught how to care for the bowel. Somehow bowel…
— Bernard Jensen
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All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined
— Frederick Lenz
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The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of…
— Peter Ackroyd
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