Allan Gurganus famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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!
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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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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.
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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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I was of the “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn’t give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff†school of thought.
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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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