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Thomas McGuane Quotes

I'm not considered as illegitimate as I once was. Because in a sense, I'm like lip cancer - I'm not going to go away.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Go Cancer Away Going Sense Go Away

I always knew it'd be difficult to balance the right of privacy and the right of free speech. I think that is a tension that we've seen in court case after court case and law after law. And we always strive to find that right balance.

Balance Law Free Think Speech Find

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.

Work Never Out Used Work Out Guys

I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.

Good Forward Thinking You Bad Will

When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we work the turnstile, helping the exasperated customer pass whatever temporary obstacle is keeping them from their next exciting thing. Now we're the ones who just like having them in the room.

Work Support Customer Comfort Young

We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

Life Kind Possible Need Because

If you want to win in this league, you need quality depth management, in the age of the salary cap.

Age Quality Win Management You Want

Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories... that they're there and they want to be told.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Children People Thought Feel Born

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

Story Dream Lost Want Kind Along

Under the cover of encryption, terror masterminds provide recruits with the tactics and tools necessary to carry out attacks using small arms and explosives. None of this requires any overseas travel.

Travel Small Tools Out Carry Arms

In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you.

Beach You Haiti Because Books Reads

I'm a Dunkin' Donuts kind of guy. I also like Cadbury's.

Kind Guy Donuts Like Also

In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

Life Best Football Job End Golf

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