Ethan Canin Quotes
I really enjoy the immediacy of the 'knife and gun clubs,' as they're so callously called. Emergency is a great place to learn about people.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
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I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.
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Everybody needs somebody.
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I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
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I really enjoy the immediacy of the 'knife and gun clubs,' as they're so callously called. Emergency is a great place to learn about people.
