Quote by Tobias Wolff
I teach one semester a year, and this year Im just teaching one co

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

Other quotes by Tobias Wolff

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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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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funny
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Other Quotes from
Graduation
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. – B.F. Skinner

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Graduation

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. – Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

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Graduation

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day – I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year. – R. Lee Ermey

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Graduation

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. – Edward Koch

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Graduation

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. – English Proverb

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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. – Tennessee Williams

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Failure

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Birds

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic. – Henry Ward Beecher

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God