Allan Gurganus quotes
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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.”
-- Allan GurganusSource : Allan Gurganus (2010). “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: A Novel”, p.399, Vintage
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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 GurganusSource : Allan Gurganus (2010). “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: A Novel”, p.655, Vintage
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“There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.”
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“I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was innocent enough to believe there really was such a job. And if he could just write a poem that incorporated everything he felt and suspected and hoped for from America that he would have the position.”
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“Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.”
-- Allan Gurganus
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Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
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Source : "Q&A: Aaron Stanford's Travelin' Man". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. May 09, 2007.
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“I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.”
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“A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar”
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Source : Colleen Hoover (2014). “Ugly Love”, p.189, Simon and Schuster
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“Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.”
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