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Thomas McGuane Quotes

I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Believe Literature Nothing Spirit

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life Wisdom Freedom Alone Day Own

Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say.

Myself Down Say Want Sitting Listen

I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.

Fire People Perception Think You

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.

Culture Teachers Will More Turn Who

One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them.

Proactive Always Things Who Approach

From his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern music.

Music Back First Romance Bring

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

Bruce Boxleitner

Ideas Help Head Paper Call Got

It's not a personal mission to win La Liga, but I want it very badly.

Antoine Griezmann

Win Mission Want Personal Very La

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

Age Time Old Age I Am People Old

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.

Best Saying Forward Mask Bad Try

I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It was just something gently imposed.

Faith Parents Think Single Jewish

I don't want to be somebody else.

Want Somebody Else

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