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After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.
— Thomas McGuane
Tags: work

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I've outlived my parents, and I've had some wonderful second chances in life. I feel remarkably uncheated.
— Thomas McGuane
Tags: some, feel, parents, life
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.
— Thomas McGuane
Tags: key, why, details, life
I'm certainly afraid of not being able to write for some reason. I guess I've had spells of not necessarily writer's block, but something like that. I find that pretty terrifying.
— Thomas McGuane
Tags: reason, some, being, like
I wrote a lot of 'Driving on the Rim' by giving myself the gift of being just as eccentric as I felt like.
— Thomas McGuane
Tags: driving, like, gift, myself
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.
— Thomas McGuane
Tags: something, always, feeling, life
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