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Ron Carlson Quotes

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us Picture Quote #1

It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there is no God. But to have infinite knowledge, you would have to be God yourself. It’s hard to be God yourself and an atheist at the same time! Picture Quote #1

If we’re really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate Picture Quote #1

I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota Picture Quote #1

I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. ‘This Side of Paradise’ - that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays - I felt like he’d written the book just for me Picture Quote #1

I don’t write for theme, but if you work closely on some guy fixing a sandwich or a window or a table or trying to visit an old teacher or walking down the street on which he was a boy, a theme, a human hope, will emerge Picture Quote #1

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The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition Picture Quote #1

No one among us suffers the radical appreciation for coffee that I do. It calls to me, but I have learned not to listen Picture Quote #1

The big secret is the ability to stay in the room Picture Quote #1

I always write about my own experiences, whether I’ve had them or not Picture Quote #1

The writer is the person who stays in the room Picture Quote #1

Get down, get naked, get savage Picture Quote #1

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The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live Picture Quote #1

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact! Picture Quote #1

It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science Picture Quote #1

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon Picture Quote #1

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Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us (Ron Carlson Quotes) It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there is no God. But to have infinite knowledge, you would have to be God yourself. It’s hard to be God yourself and an atheist at the same time! (Ron Carlson Quotes) If we’re really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate. (Ron Carlson Quotes) I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota. (Ron Carlson Quotes) I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. ‘This Side of Paradise’ - that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays - I felt like he’d written the book just for me. (Ron Carlson Quotes) I don’t write for theme, but if you work closely on some guy fixing a sandwich or a window or a table or trying to visit an old teacher or walking down the street on which he was a boy, a theme, a human hope, will emerge. (Ron Carlson Quotes) The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition. (Ron Carlson Quotes) No one among us suffers the radical appreciation for coffee that I do. It calls to me, but I have learned not to listen. (Ron Carlson Quotes) The big secret is the ability to stay in the room (Ron Carlson Quotes) I always write about my own experiences, whether I’ve had them or not (Ron Carlson Quotes) The writer is the person who stays in the room (Ron Carlson Quotes) Get down, get naked, get savage (Ron Carlson Quotes) The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live (Ron Carlson Quotes) In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact! (Ron Carlson Quotes) It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science (Ron Carlson Quotes) Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon (Ron Carlson Quotes)