"I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov."

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Ethan Canin

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“You can give your own intuitive qualities a way to surface by following your heart.”
“Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.”
“You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless”
“Iâ€™ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.”
“I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.”
“Art has got nothing to do with taste.”
“But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would really consider whether they think the benefits outweigh the very serious potential injustice, because in these cases the emotions are very, very high on both sides and to have stakes as high as you do in these cases, there is a special potential for error. We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.”
“Trust your intuition and be guided by love.”

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