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Allan Gurganus Quotes

My mother had a master's degree and had been a schoolteacher before she started having kids at 30. But my father's family were landowners, farmer-merchants. Moneymaking was extremely important, like one of those semi-rapacious families in Lillian Hellman, where they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 11, 1947

Topics

Family Father Mother Value Know She

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Hope Simple Nothing Will

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

Robert Schumann

Music I Am Impossible Find Down

'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction.

Robert Kazinsky

Technology Science Reality Why Opera

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.

Man Over Jewish Going Who Identify

I still think buying a home is the best investment any individual can make.

Home Best Think Investment Buying

There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely competitive approach to life, treating the planet as if it has infinite resources and pitting one country against another for supremacy.

Simon Mainwaring

Life Me Country Infinite First

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

Jason Calacanis

Life Work Balance You Go Want

I don't like losers.

We do the impossible when we tell ourselves we can.

Impossible Tell Ourselves

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

Justice Imagination Only Found

I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.

William Petersen

Character Time Yourself People Think

I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children.

Children Man I Am Name Country Give

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