A Quote by Thomas McGuane

My twenties were entirely taken up with literature. Entirely.

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Thomas McGuane
American - Author
Born: December 11, 1939

In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved.

Deepak Chopra

The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational.

Edward Hirsch

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Jean de la Bruyere

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

Oscar Wilde

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

Thomas a Kempis

Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

Jane Hirshfield

I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.

K. Flay

a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

Hermann Hesse

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

Rebecca Solnit

The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.

Ricky Gervais

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

Niccolo Machiavelli

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

Carolyn Wells

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

Emile Durkheim

A character is never entirely white or black, there's never entirely right or wrong. You have to realize sometimes you face something, and then you change your mind, or then you realize you were wrong.

Berenice Bejo

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