Ethan Canin Quotes

To me, point of view is everything.

Ethan Canin

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• A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Nervous

• I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Women
  • Summer
  • Competition

• Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Education
  • Best
  • Poetry

• Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Deserve
  • Balls

• The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. As for myself, I'm not really sure who I am. I change every day.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Thing

• Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Dreams

• I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Country
  • Foe

• You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

  

  Winslow Homer
  • Watercolors

• Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Attention
  • Focus

• I'm not making any bets on the future.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Future
  • Bets

• Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don't like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • People
  • World
  • Humanity

• The Wizard Of Oz" has secrets that are just too much. Or "Peter Pan" – the whole 'lost boys' thing is just incredible. They’re not childlike at all, they’re really, really deep; you can rule your life by them. Or say 'child-like', because children are the most brilliant people of all, that’s why they relate to those stories so well. Fairy-tales are wonderful.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Secrets
  • Peter Pan
  • Wizard Of Oz

• The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Intelligence
  • Temptation
  • Cynicism

• It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have never thought of this, but I think this is quite true, that if, even if you talk to them about nonviolence from a tactical point of view, they can't quite see it because they don't even know they're outnumbered.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • True
  • Violence
  • Point Of View

• Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Things

• The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Women
  • Protect
  • Trusted

• Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Integrity
  • Relationships
  • Assuming

• To me, point of view is everything.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Point Of View