- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Driveway Quotes
Where the memories parked.
The driveway shows up here less as real estate and more as a stage for family life — a car that never quite got fixed, a writer stepping outside just to see another adult human being.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surveys often show people would prefer a detached house with a lawn and driveway to an apartment. I understand this. It's not my place to presume to tell people where they can live. But perhaps that dream will simply not be possible in the future.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica Canyon. I wrote thousands of pages there, but in order to see another adult human being, I had to steal out through the brambly side of the house, along the driveway down to the street.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all have human value. That's what my work is about.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to like the last sentence I just wrote, which is: 'It was late in the fall and the trees lining our driveway had turned red like a row of burning matches.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been much of a trash-talker, and it probably goes back to playing driveway basketball when I was 12. It's never worked out for me. I've never flexed that muscle! It's not my style.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020