Ethan Canin Quotes
When the narrator says, 'This is a story without surprises,' most of the time, this is not what happens.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.
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I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
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Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.
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For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.
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There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.
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Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.
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In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.
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Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.
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Prism! Where is that baby?
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Such loyalty is admirable, of course,” said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritation with difficulty, “but Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He’s gone.” “He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him,” said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.
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As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!
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I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.
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Well that's what Andy wore to bed. You know, the oxford button-down Brooks Brothers shirt that he's been wearing all day and his big long socks. He'd just take off his jeans and his boots and go to bed. Then he'd change into a fresh ensemble after he had breakfast the next morning.
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A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
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I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.
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I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to mock novelistic convention and show the impossibility of capturing a reality external to the text or whatever.
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Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
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When the narrator says, 'This is a story without surprises,' most of the time, this is not what happens.
