Walter Darby Bannard Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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I don't die in anything!
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
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I have rules for everything.
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
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Time will heal everything.
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I do everything that everybody else does.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
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I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.
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I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.
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Learning something new means you have to abandon, for a little while at least, the familiar and comforting. I happen to like this feeling. I remind myself that tomorrow, I will be someone who didn't exist yesterday.
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One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
