American - Author | December 11, 1939 -
I'm very grateful for what I have. I'm old enough that I can mort out at any minute without any sense of regret at all. That's not true. I might look back and think I wish I hadn't been so selfish when my kids were smaller. But I'm not overwhelmed by regret.
Thomas McGuane
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You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.
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Not long ago, in response to a spell of insomnia, I learned some of the principles of meditation, to empty my mind piece by piece. It was like the old game of jacks - cautiously lifting each jack clear of its neighbor until only the empty background remained.
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I find it more consoling to think of myself as little than to think of myself as big. I think I've gotten that from animals, particularly dogs. Dogs live such a modest life, and they don't live long, and the more you're around them, you kind of accept that.
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I'm a great reviser. I do these reckless drafts just to get the lay of the land.
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I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.
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I'm not considered as illegitimate as I once was. Because in a sense, I'm like lip cancer - I'm not going to go away.
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I am not a team player, including my inadequacies as a parent.
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