- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years. Later in life, when I got out of graduate school and imagined myself living the life of a writer like Hemingway or Kerouac, his practical self inevitably encouraged me to get a steady a job and raise a family, just like he did.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found it and contacted me. We began a correspondence that lasted for years, and I eventually met him when I was 18.
- Differs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make my mark or make money. I wasn't anxious about feeding my kids or whether my father would be proud of me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020