Dan Chaon Quotes

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

Dan Chaon

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LifeEyesWorldThinkThinkingYou

I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke, and bearing the initials of my father's father, John Christopher, who passed away just months before I was born.

Joanna Going

FatherChildParentBornFirst Child

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

Jill Lepore

DieFollowPatternsSpreadBecause

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

Jesse Ventura

ReligionProveRight

I'm always shocked by what people react to.

Jennifer Konner

PeopleReactAlwaysShocked

Disunion by force is treason.

Andrew Jackson

TreasonForce

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I'd put on 50 pounds.

Robert Kiyosaki

SportsTimeFunStepSpringEnergy

One day for dinner I'll have fish, then the next day chicken, and then I'll have steak. I just try to mix it up all the time. I don't eat the same thing every day.

Andy Murray

TimeDayDinnerFishEvery DayTry

I've been into weight training for many, many years and you add to that a good dose of cardio, don't overindulge, and you can do all right.

Stephen Lang

GoodTrainingYouRightYearsBeen

Spell check exists for a reason.

Sophia Amoruso

ReasonCheckSpellExists

It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.

Toussaint Louverture

AloneManRedBlackWishBorn

We're going to make America a better place.

Tom Cotton

BetterAmericaPlaceBetter Place

I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

Dominic Cooper

AngerYouHiddenRageKeepUs

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