But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the … - Francine Prose

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I've definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don't understand the schedule, and it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's that sometimes I am really busy and can't get back to them.

Francine Prose

But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the face of sacrifice and suffering is the dark mirror image of pleasure and enjoyment, that every moment of arrival is to be treasured and enjoyed in the full knowledge that it has brought us a moment closer to the moment of departure.

Brought, Grief, Running, Sacrifice, Treasured

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Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

Book, Books, Like, Reading, Writing

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

Creative, Elements, Instead, Skills, Writing

Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.

Class, Ethics, Important, Manual, Self

With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.

Army, Manages, Night, Particular, Possibility, War

When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.

Goal, Impression, Information, Make, Speak