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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I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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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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A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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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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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
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A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.
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Ruining is a gift .. it's the way of changing.
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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.
