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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

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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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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Other Quotes from
Graduation
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book

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Graduation

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. – Al McGuire

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Graduation

When you leave here, don’t forget why you came. – Adlai Stevenson, to college graduates

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Graduation

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology. – Kenneth G. Wilson

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Graduation

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I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding. – Flavius Josephus

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I dont seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesnt help me. Precedents dont inform my experience. – Bill Nighy

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I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis. – Star Trek, Mr. Spock

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I know we cant always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck. – Danica McKellar

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