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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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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.…
— Benigno Aquino III
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Women will change the corporation more than we expect.
— Anita Borg
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything…
— Anatole Broyard
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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
— John Calvin
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music…
— A. R. Ammons
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If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?
— Hasdai ibn Shaprut
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The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create…
— Earl Nightingale
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The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our…
— Richard Alleine
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The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
— Abraham Lincoln
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We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness…
— Phillips Brooks
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