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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

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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The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Graduation

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. – Erma Bombeck

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Graduation

Even though I didnt get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics. – Herb Ritts

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Graduation

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate. – Alexis Herman

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Graduation

Random Quotes

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense. – Tippi Hedren

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funny

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Science

Whether for life or death, do your own work well. – John Ruskin

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Death

Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. “Do you believe there is a devil?” asked one. “No,” said the other promptly. “It’s like Santa Claus: it’s your father.” – Nebelspalter (Zurich, Switzerland), quoted in The Literary Digest, Vol.106, 1930

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Fathers