"You felt it as a depth of ease……" — Tobias Wolff
"You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle for a place in the world; that is already reserved for them."
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52 Quotes by Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff has 52 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power…
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The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It…
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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…
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One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess,…
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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…
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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find…
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There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
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A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I…
— Edmond Rostand
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Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual…
— Joseph Addison
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than…
— Bette Davis
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Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need.…
— Emilie Schindler
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Adam Roberts is the affable and infectiously curious friend we all wish we had with us in the kitchen—the one…
— Unknown Author
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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.
— William Shakespeare
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Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about…
— Vicente del Bosque
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I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.
— Rashida Jones
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