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“ Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity – its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self. ”

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The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

~ Tobias Wolff

I'm a survivor, I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.

~ Tobias Wolff

a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.

~ Tobias Wolff

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

~ Tobias Wolff