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Karl Marlantes Quotes

When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 24, 1944

Topics

Great War Cold Feet American Down

The rise of women and feminism is well documented. What is equally fascinating - and less talked about - is the impact this has had on men.

Women Men Impact Rise Feminism Well

Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.

Andrei Codrescu

Creating Refugees Own Receiving Our

I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.

Morning Time Short You Know Want

Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.

You Want Prepare Well Still Stutter

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

Writing Loved Photography Teenager

There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.

Imagination Books Fences Any

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.

Business Truth Time Moment Enough

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

Michael Ian Black

Future Hope Pain Tears Parent

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Knowledge Light Beyond Boundaries

I go to screenings, then plays, then after-parties, then clubs.

Go Then Clubs Plays

Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Good Government People Want Meet

When I choose a movie, I'll ask myself: 'Is this a movie I want to see?'

Myself Choose Want Ask See Movie

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