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Tobias Wolff

"Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else."

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"Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

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"Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future."

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"Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life."

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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

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"Past, I am letting you go. Future, I will see you tomorrow. Present, I love you, live in you, celebrate you, and will never let you go."

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"The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it."

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"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."

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"You can never live in the past. You always live in the tiny gap between the present and the future."

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"I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him."
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"It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time."
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"Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow."
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"The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form."
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"Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order."
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