Mark Kurlansky Quotes

My most memorable job was on a lobster boat. I was a pretty strong kid, and they just needed someone who could haul pots on 200 ft. of line.

Mark Kurlansky

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• It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.

  

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• Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

  

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• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

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• Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

  

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• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  

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• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  

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• Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

  

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• I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

  

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• Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

  

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• The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

  

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• It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

  

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• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

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• I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

  

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• There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'

  

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• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

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• Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks.

  

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• I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

  

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• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

  

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• When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.

  

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• The new curate seemed quite a nice young man, but what a pity it was that his combinations showed, tucked carelessly into his socks, when he sat down.

  

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• My most memorable job was on a lobster boat. I was a pretty strong kid, and they just needed someone who could haul pots on 200 ft. of line.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Strong