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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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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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See yourself in abundance and you will attract it. It works every time, with every person.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff…
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Be loving to yourself and others will see that love reciprocated. This rule works every time
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The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But…
— Albert Camus
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It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place…
— Mary Blakely
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If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.
— Henry C. Link
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I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I…
— Amy Sedaris
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Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall…
— Albert Camus
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You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't…
— Tobias Wolff
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Sure. Knock yourself out. No, really. Hammer to the head, works every time.” Claire
— Rachel Caine
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If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the…
— Tom Ford
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