Ethan Canin Quotes
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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Happiness needs one-upmanship.
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'You know Adam?' Teddy asked him.'Do I know who?''Adam. In the Bible.'Nicholson smiled. 'Not personally,' he said dryly.
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I have never ever argued about billings because I don’t think that they mean anything.
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Who shall count up the evil brood that is born from power - the pitiful fear, the madness, the despair, the overpowering craving for revenge, the treachery, the unmeasured cruelty?
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I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.
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To me, I've played full seasons and had success. Mentally, I've been through it before. I'm not incapable of going through this.
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We live in the public eye, so if one of us makes a mistake, it affects everyone, which makes me think about what I'm doing in life more.
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Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.
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I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother - Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.
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Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.
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I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.
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Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
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God does not give beforehand the grace with which to bear His blows; He does not heal before he smites. In your terror at the thought of parting with Horace, you left entirely out of account the sustaining power that would hold you up and bear you through those awful moments; you suffered in advance, and wholly in your own strength. But how many, how many persons I have heard say, ‘I am a marvel to myself! This blow, so long dreaded, has not slain me, as I ever believed it would; I stagger under it, but I live to wonder at the strength God gives me, and in which I bear it.
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By all that's good and glorious.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.
