Quote by Tobias Wolff
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to rem

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. – Tobias Wolff

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I teach one semester a year, and this year Im just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. – Tobias Wolff

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Graduation
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I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. – Tobias Wolff

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Poetry
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Everything seems fine until youre about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, its a funny thing, but Im an exception to that rule. – Martin Amis

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funny

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. Theres no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or youre finished. Its impossible to predict anything. – Colin Quinn

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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. – Fred Allen

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funny

If Im in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to. – Ron Livingston

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funny

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I had no fun. My family was too serious. – Miuccia Prada

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If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. – Pope John Paul II

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[Rumi’s words are an] expression of praise and grief and gratitude and play. – Coleman Barks

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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great