"You know, right often, the body is the best thing weâ€™ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!"

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Source : Allan Gurganus (2010). “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: A Novel”, p.655, Vintage

Allan Gurganus

“The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.”
“The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.”
“Never design anything that cannot be made,”
“I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.”
“I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.”
“When you allegorize, you're gonna get everybody saved somehow.”
“I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.”
“Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.”

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