When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than a common murderer, who at least cuts your throat himself, without persuading YOU to do it.
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must ma… - Tobias Wolff
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must ma…
- Tobias Wolff
We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are. - Tobias Wolff
We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.
Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it. - Tobias Wolff
Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.
A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life. - Tobias Wolff
A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.
The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness. - Tobias Wolff
The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.
The human heart is a dark forest. - Tobias Wolff
The human heart is a dark forest.
Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity. - Tobias Wolff
Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.
What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carryin… - Tobias Wolff
What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carryin…
One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them. - Tobias Wolff
One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.
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