Thomas McGuane Quotes

If I get too old to write, or short-term memory loss - that was the one Philip Roth was worried about - if I got to that point, that would be terrible, because everything about my life has been streaming toward writing and having something to say. That would make me feel as though I were in an iron maiden of some kind.

Thomas McGuane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how hard the industry will fall.

Jeff Goodell

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Whenever you're feeling grateful, you are not feeling frustrated and angry and all those negative states that we go into. And that's a big benefit in and of itself.

Srikumar Rao

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I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

Shirley MacLaine

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I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It's, like, a suburb in the area; it's middle-class. But I used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six.

Travis Scott

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Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

Martin Niemoller

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If I'm not working, I'm either sleeping or preparing for the next day of work.

Monica Raymund

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I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Milla Jovovich

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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Jonathan Swift

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We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

Donna Shalala

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I am a rubbish flirt.

Dawn French

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I love a bright lip with a neutral eye. It's an easy, wearable look that gives brightness to your face without looking over-the-top.

Bobbi Brown

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