Old School (2003) (edit title/settings)

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• Mrs. Ramsey: Add a description of this character.
• George
• Bill White
• Gershon
• Ruth
• Big Jeff Purcell
• Dean Makepeace
• Caroline
• Roark
• Mr. Lambert
• Jeff Purcell
• Dominique
• Mr. Rice
• Nick
• Kennedy
• Margaret
• Goss
• Robert Frost
• Little Jeff
• John Galt
• Susan Friedman
• Mrs. Busk
• Colson
• Helen
• Mr. Dufresne
• Patty
• Hartmut
• Ernest Hemingway
• Ayn Rand

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• “Memory is a dream to begin with, and what I had was a dream of memory, not to be put to the test”

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• Make no mistake, he said: a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.

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

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• Writers formed a society of their own outside the common hierarchy. This gave them a power not conferred by privilege—the power to create images of the system they stood apart from, and thereby to judge it.

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• The life that produces writing can’t be written about. It is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below the mind’s business and noise, in deep unlit shafts where phantom messengers struggle toward us, killing one another along the way; and when a few survivors break through to our attention they are received as blandly as waiters bringing more coffee.

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• If, as Talleyrand said, loyalty is a matter of dates, virtue itself is often a matter of seconds.

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• Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in a poem, I know I’m being lied to. Go ahead, laugh! It’s true—rhyme’s a completely bankrupt device. It’s just wishful thinking. Nostalgia.

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• Unacknowledged shame enters the world as anger; I naturally turned mine against the snobbery of others, in the present case Ayn Rand.

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• And why would Caesar fear Ovid, except for knowing that neither his divinity nor all his legions could protect him from a good line of poetry.

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• Shelley liked to say that we poets are the unacknowledged legislators of mankind.

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• surely the most beautiful words ever written or said: His father, when he saw him coming, ran to meet him.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Miss Cobb
• New York
• Blaine Hall
• Baltimore
• Troubadour

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Tobias Wolff (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Pen/Faulkner Award (Finalist, 2004: Fiction)
• National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 2003: Fiction)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( W ) › Wolff, Tobias
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories