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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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Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
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Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead…
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Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee…
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Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because…
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When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves…
— Napoleon Hill
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We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons, even the path of the elderly in the twilight of their…
— George W. Bush
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One of the most awesome things about sports, particularly team sports, is that everything you need to do to be successful on…
— Sheila Cornell-Douty
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The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less…
— Jack Nicklaus
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I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I…
— Suzan-Lori Parks
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I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image,…
— Linda Evangelista
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Each one of us has some goal we want to reach, and we must work toward that goal one step at a…
— Sid Luckman
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
— Buchi Emecheta
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