Ethan Canin Quotes
I think even great writers only write two books that you might like. When I think of my touchstone writers like Saul Bellow, I think of 'Henderson the Rain King.' With Don DeLillo, I think of 'Libra.'
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I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
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My reason for leaving 'Beautiful', because I had such an amazing time on that show, was by the time I left, I had been doing the show for almost two years. I was a little burnt out.
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When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.
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A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
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You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.
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One of the things that I am concerned about is the degree to which we've seen a lot of commentary lately where there were, there are Republicans or pundits or cable commentators who seemed to have more confidence in Vladimir Putin than fellow Americans because those fellow Americans were Democrats. That cannot be.
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I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
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Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.
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It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong.
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Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.
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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
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Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!
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He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.
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Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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My brothers are five and seven years older respectively so they teased me a bit when they were bored, but I think I was too young to be really bothered with.
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I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell.
