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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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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit…
— John Adams
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The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or…
— David R. Brower
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Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.
— Sandra Bullock
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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards,…
— Chris Chocola
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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is…
— George Sand
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God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending…
— Jerry Bridges
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Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.
— Keanu Reeves
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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would…
— George Bernard Shaw
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God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean…
— Robert Muller
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For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the…
— George MacDonald
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