When we are young. . . we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we … - Edmund White

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Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.

Edmund White

When we are young. . . we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

Experience, Nostalgia, Years, Young

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The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

Book, Books, Important, Intimate, Stranger, Strangers

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit

Book, Fit, Landscape, Literary, Perfect, Thinking

Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure.

Adventure, Bored, Hate, Marie, Masochistic, Self

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique

Experimental, Sincerity, Technique, Think, Thinking

The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

Different, Italian, Melded, Past, School, Sources

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Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.

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It is not true that I contemplated going to London or obtaining a visa. The purpose of such rumours is to tarnish [my reputation].

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Jeb Bush

I know I'm going to have to get beyond being George H. W. Bush's son and Barbara's son -- for which I'm really proud. And I'm going to get beyond being George W. 's brother for which I am extraordinarily proud as well, there's a lot of interest in finding the ways that we are different and all this. Well, the simple fact is that we're all on our own life's journey -- my brothers and sister are different than me.

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Chris Hadfield

Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself.

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Andres Segovia

Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.

Color, Music, Special, Thorough, Thorough Knowledge, Use