Norman Maclean Quotes
One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.
Quotes to Explore
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
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The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.
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In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.
