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Gerald Clarke Quotes

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 21, 1937

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Fiction Theory His Non-Fiction Could

An Episcopalian military institution when it was founded near the turn of the century, Harvard for years had an implicit quota system that effectively limited the number of Jewish admissions.

John Gregory Dunne

Military Jewish Years Turn System

I have always been drawn to young characters and seeing big tapestries through the eyes of a child. It probably comes from being a father myself and having a young son and seeing the world through his eyes. I write stories that are sort of the exaggerated version of that.

Father Son Eyes Myself Child World

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

Evidence Theory Absence Middle Thing

I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who I believe to be robots. All of them are people to me. In my mind, it's not about what you look like or what you do; it's about who you are inside.

Yellow People Mind Me Believe Black

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

Robbie Coltrane

Work Fear Car Best Past You

It's funny: I rarely reference anything, and I'm one of those people that doesn't really spend much time in other people's worlds. I just try and create my own and make it as distinctive as I can.

Funny Time People I Can Create Try

Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.

Sky Black Universe Balls Cotton Jet

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.

Good Time Government Decisions You

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

Mother Children Great Support World

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.

Time New York Long You Long Time

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

Language Wrong Equal Actions Unequal

Even though I wrestled Ric Flair very early on in my career, it was a short match, so getting to wrestle him later on in my career was a benchmark. Wrestling Hulk Hogan was a benchmark for me.

Me Short Early Career Wrestling Him

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