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Thomas McGuane Quotes

I think anybody alert to the inspiration to write has to be kind of sensitized to the unexpected.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Be Kind Think Unexpected Kind Write

Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.

Animal Generation Die Lose Existence

So great is society's demand for information that we can no longer say that all the news gathered is worthy of airing. Much of it is not.

Robert Kardashian

Great Society Information News Say

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

Pride Feel Ladder Top Backwards

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

Matthew Desmond

Nature Poverty Look Trauma Hard

I'm not an actor. I'm really bad in front of a camera. It wouldn't work.

Work Camera Bad Actor Front Really

The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.

Opportunity Me Sunday Worship Real

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

Stijn Streuvels

Day Fasting More Sound Forgotten

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Mind Looking You Know Need Prepared

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Time Angry Person Civilization Rock

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

Good Me Think Year Nothing Stage

I believe in the power of a positive, high-performance culture, which begins with strong ethical values at the core.

Positive Power Culture Believe

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Unhappy More Being Idol Than

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