Best quotes by Thomas McGuane on Life

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• ‟ You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

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• ‟ I've spent as much of my life fishing as decency allowed, and sometimes I don't let even that get in my way.

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• ‟ I've spent as much of my life fishing as decency allowed, and sometimes I don't let even that get in my way.

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• ‟ If I get too old to write, or short-term memory loss - that was the one Philip Roth was worried about - if I got to that point, that would be terrible, because everything about my life has been streaming toward writing and having something to say. That would make me feel as though I were in an iron maiden of some kind.

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• ‟ I had a kind of tough early life. I had a tough time in school. I had an unsympathetic family in terms of what I was trying to do. I decided that my family situation was simply hopeless. I kinda bailed out, and my brother and sister didn't. I failed at marriage, which I'm very upset with myself over.

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• ‟ I've outlived my parents, and I've had some wonderful second chances in life. I feel remarkably uncheated.

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• ‟ Maybe I haven't been tested, but I have no fear of death at all. I was with Allen Ginsberg during the last year of his life, and he called all his friends and said, 'I'm on my way out, and it's kind of exciting.' I see it as kind of exciting, too.

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• ‟ I had a passionate zest for Key West life in all of its little details. I'm not sure why or where that came from, but I was so excited to be there.

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• ‟ I find it more consoling to think of myself as little than to think of myself as big. I think I've gotten that from animals, particularly dogs. Dogs live such a modest life, and they don't live long, and the more you're around them, you kind of accept that.

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• ‟ I like Halldor Laxness and Machado de Assis - people who try to understand the human condition by looking at intimate pictures of human life.

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• ‟ I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

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