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Thomas McGuane Quotes

One of the illusions that we live by is that we can really know anybody else, and we're often surprised by traits in people that we thought we knew very well. The struggle to overcome loneliness, which is sort of our universal burden, leads us to leap to conclusions about who other people are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 11, 1939

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Live Loneliness Struggle People Know

'Hedwig' is unabashedly analog.

John Cameron Mitchell

Analog Unabashedly

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

People Speak Fake American Feel

In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.

Woman Back Accessories Cannot Every

We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great.

Great Door Think You Said Next

That's what I've figured out over the years - the way I write makes people feel uncomfortable.

People Feel Uncomfortable Way Write

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

Great Day Back Rock Timeless Seems

I think it is important to remember that there are so many different ways to be sisters.

Think Remember Important Different

People ask me, 'Why don't you take time off?' but the working class doesn't take time off. They're out there working every day. That's what I do, too. I want them to know there is hope, and I'm out there just like they are.

Hope Time Day People Me You

It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.

Road Generation Sometimes Living

I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.

Chris Moneymaker

Comfortable Games Two Hold Stud

If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.

Business Money Door Lawyers Know

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Power Gold Way Matter Impress Iron

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