Thomas McGuane Quotes

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

Thomas McGuane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I think that we need, you know, Sen. Vitter is quite conservative, and I think we need to replace a good strong conservative with another conservative.

John Fleming

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I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

John Leonard

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One of the interesting things about the 'Decameron' itself was it was written in the Florentine dialect as opposed to the Latin vernacular - and that was mainly to have it be a piece of literature for the people as supposed to some kind of highfalutin' canon.

Jeff Baena

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You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

Toni Morrison

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In the salary-cap-free world of MLB, you get what you pay for... but only if you pay the most.

Tom Morello

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I like to think of myself as a virtuous troll.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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When you do an action movie, you've got to come prepared to do an action movie.

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I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.

Bruce Willis

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I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

Bob Etheridge

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I share everything with my family; all my happiness and success is theirs.

Philippe Coutinho

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I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward.

Peter Hain

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