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The problem with death is absence
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Problem
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A library should be like a pair of open arms.
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Library
Pairs
Reading
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Live in the past, but don't remember too much.
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Past
Remember
Too Much
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Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved
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Moving
Moving In
Saved
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There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.
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Men
Animal
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What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.
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Differences
Grief
Mourning
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When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.
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Dresses
Needs
Writing
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Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.
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Friendship
Light
Quiet
Winter
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Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong.
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Criticize
Idiot
Persons
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Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.
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Death
Happens
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Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.
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Age
Men
Time
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Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.
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Monsters
Persons
Self
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Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.
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Brain
Children
School
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Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.
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Fit
Gun
Weapons
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Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
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Dream
Inspirational
Journey
Knowledge
Children
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Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.
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Funeral
Matter
Thinking
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If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.
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Men
Mind
Reading
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If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.
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Adjectives
Chosen
Needs
Three
Describe
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The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.
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Fingernails
Joyce
James
Stands
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The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.
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Might
Pay
Self
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The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.
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Bills
Ideas
Rights
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Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.
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Uncles
May
Population
Scrooge
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If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.
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Actors
Way
Writing
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Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.
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Teacher
Giving
Subliminal
Writing
Life Time Teacher
Counts
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A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.
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Beauty
Beautiful
Confusion
Years
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One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.
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Death
Important
Real
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The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.
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Life
Moving On
Morning
Bread
Moving
Gesture
Title
Toast
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Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.
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Kids
War
Children
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Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.
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Advancement
Blame
Wind
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If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems the most comprehensible to me would be the God who set us spinning and said 'Good luck.'
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Good Luck
Leap
Leap Of Faith
Luck
Spinning
God Faith Good
Comprehensible
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Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes.
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Cold
Mere
Prose
Strangeness
Stretching
Actual
Avoid
Brief
Delights
Effect
Eventually
Leaves
Suspect
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The trick in foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps. The only way to be sure is to rub each clump between your thumb and index finger, which makes a mess of your hands.
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Coffee
Hands
Mess
Misled
Teeth
Finger
Grounds
Trick
Rub
Thumb
Tooth
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If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'
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Calling
Excuse
Firsts
Focused
Misfits
Ought
Sad Truth
Self
Belong
First Place
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The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves.
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Imagination
Country
People
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Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.
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Anticipation
Consequence
Example
Surprise
Understanding
Unusual
Use
For Example
Instrument
Merely
Whereas
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One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection.
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Kind
Patterns
Perfect
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No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.
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Evil
Good And Evil
Helplessness
Memorable
Senses
Sympathetic
Vices
Attached
Besides
Virtues
Poles
Shakespeare
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For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.
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Home
War
Country
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I think there must be something wrong with me as a writer. Because all my friends who are writers find reasons to hate everything about their day. But I just love writing. I love starting the day with language and seeing if I can make something of it.
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Love Hate Me
All My Friends
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The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.
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Art
Wisdom
Powerful
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Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.
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Death
Women
Suicide
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My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. . . . I think the country has long been ready to restrict the use of guns, except for hunting rifles and shotguns, and now I think we're prepared to get rid of the damned things entirely - the handguns, the semis and the automatics.
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Country
Gun
Mean
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Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting. . . . Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; who never uses the word career as a noun -- he is your friend.
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Careers
People
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Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen the British really coming by my house looking for it. And besides, the right to bear arms is not an absolute right anyway, as New York's Sullivan Law proves. We talk about ourselves as a violent society, and some of that is right and some of it is claptrap. But I think if you took away the guns, and I mean really take away the guns, not what Congress is doing now, you would see that violent society diminish considerably.
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New York
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