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Thomas McGuane Quotes

American - Author | December 11, 1939 -

You never see a teaser for a film on television that doesn't have someone running around a corner with a gun. Have you noticed that?... I think Hollywood has as much responsibility for gun violence as the National Rifle Association.

Responsibility Gun Think Someone You

I had a kind of tough early life. I had a tough time in school. I had an unsympathetic family in terms of what I was trying to do. I decided that my family situation was simply hopeless. I kinda bailed out, and my brother and sister didn't. I failed at marriage, which I'm very upset with myself over.

Life Family Marriage Time Myself

I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.

Believe Literature Nothing Spirit

I've outlived my parents, and I've had some wonderful second chances in life. I feel remarkably uncheated.

Life Parents Feel Wonderful Chances

Maybe I haven't been tested, but I have no fear of death at all. I was with Allen Ginsberg during the last year of his life, and he called all his friends and said, 'I'm on my way out, and it's kind of exciting.' I see it as kind of exciting, too.

Life Fear Death Friends Year Said

I'm a neurotic fiction writer who'd like to be a cowboy.

Fiction Cowboy Like Writer Neurotic

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

Alone Best People Write Things Seem

I think when I first started out, I had a kind of an exuberance about language, comedy, narrative leaps that... stopped just short of non sequiturs. And I'm much more cautious now.

Think Language Short Comedy Kind

I'm a really a fanatical reviser, and there comes a point where I have to declare a truce with the text, or I'll keep fooling with it forever.

Point Forever Where Keep Text Truce

My parents and my sister died... very close together, and after that, I lost quite a bit of my sense of humor. Most of it I think has kind of come back, but I know there was a time when I didn't think things were funny anymore. I kind of think they're funny again.

Funny Time Humor Together Parents

I liked Hemingway better before I began to be called 'Hemingwayesque.'

Better Began Before Liked Hemingway

I never wanted to be a celebrity writer. I wanted to be a good writer. I'm still trying to be a good writer. That's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

Good Morning Me Trying Celebrity

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