Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Richard McKenna

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Last updated on November 14, 2024.

Richard Milton McKenna was an American sailor and novelist. He was best known for his historical novel, The Sand Pebbles which tells the story of an American sailor serving aboard a gunboat on the Chinese Yangtze River in 1925.

American - Novelist | May 9, 1913 - November 1, 1964

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Being dead is being weak and walled off.

Richard McKenna

Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

Richard McKenna

You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.

Richard McKenna

My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.

Richard McKenna

The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.

Richard McKenna

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Richard McKenna

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