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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 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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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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Tobias Wolff
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