Allan Gurganus Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
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“Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape.”
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“You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.”
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“Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.”
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“Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.”
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“You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!”
-- Allan Gurganus
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