Allan Gurganus quote: "Collections collect collectors. It doesn't work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness."

Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized by it, can whisper to us with...
ALLAN GURGANUS

I rise at 6. Strong coffee helps me face the paper edition of 'The New York Times.' It daily...
ALLAN GURGANUS

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.
ALLAN GURGANUS

Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealin...
ALLAN GURGANUS

To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of ...
ALLAN GURGANUS

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them
ALLAN GURGANUS

I'm a great admirer of Primo Levi's work. It's always mind-boggling, the idea of how muc...
ALLAN GURGANUS

My mother had a master's degree and had been a schoolteacher before she started having kids at 3...
ALLAN GURGANUS

People rich enough to redecorate every 10 months are certainly careless with antique furniture. I fo...
ALLAN GURGANUS

It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper a...
ALLAN GURGANUS

The tree feels splintery, nasty to my touch; it feels Floridian, more reptile than vegetable, more s...
ALLAN GURGANUS

Having great friends in New York is like having great friends on an expedition into Darkest Africa i...
ALLAN GURGANUS

We do see young women in here that are in denial that they are pregnant. Just the fear that would gr...
KAY GURGANUS

She could have been scared and not knowing what to do. It certainly is disturbing to me and everyone...
KAY GURGANUS

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of choles...
ALLAN SHERMAN

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
GARY ALLAN

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
ALLAN SLOAN

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other ha...
ALLAN SHERMAN

I faced odds when glaucoma took the bat out of my hands. But I didn't give in or feel sorry for ...
ALLAN RAY

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And ...
ALLAN SHERMAN

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally betwee...
ALLAN MASSIE

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious ill...
ALLAN BLOOM

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrum...
ALLAN BLOOM

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magi...
ALLAN BLOOM

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the unive...
ALLAN BLOOM

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - t...
ALLAN BLOOM

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industr...
ALLAN BLOOM

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great...
ALLAN BLOOM

When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the thro...
ALLAN MCNISH

It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If ...
ALLAN SHERMAN

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll ...
ALLAN BECK

Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.
ALLAN BECK

Today, Audi has showed America the potential of diesel power. This is a historic day for Audi and fo...
ALLAN MCNISH

It's a little unfortunate. Sometimes we come up against problems.
ALLAN MCNISH

We had our share of trouble today, but that's natural in development. This was the first real endura...
ALLAN MCNISH

It was fun to really blast the car around the track.
ALLAN MCNISH

Airbus has made a substantial commitment within the United States, where we procure more than 46 per...
ALLAN MCARTOR

We've seen a couple carriers already decide to move some early A380 routes to San Francisco because ...
ALLAN MCARTOR

It's no secret that San Francisco is delighted to entertain any of these carriers. Once they move th...
ALLAN MCARTOR

If airlines feel like they are not going to be able to be accommodated, then they'll start looking a...
ALLAN MCARTOR

Robert believes in our system of justice, and he looks forward to his day in court. He's confident t...
ALLAN MAYER

This is not the first time Carey has made ridiculous accusations against his brother. We're not goin...
ALLAN MAYER

The movie star is past its peak in terms of its power. Which is not to say it's not very powerful, b...
ALLAN MAYER

The entertainment media is changing. The currency a movie star had was the ability to put people in ...
ALLAN MAYER

There was a fair amount of misinformation circulated by the media, and Jason Catlett was part of it....
ALLAN MAYER

To be fair, he has a personal history of charitable works like this, so it's not as if this is some ...
ALLAN MAYER

We can, however, confirm that no one is suggesting the tape depicts anything but the activities of c...
ALLAN MAYER

We have heard second-hand reports that the tape allegedly shows consenting adults, including someone...
ALLAN MAYER

The conventional wisdom is that Tom Cruise shot himself in both feet and the stomach. And he's tryin...
ALLAN MAYER

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to ...
ALLAN MASSIE

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsib...
ALLAN MASSIE

Ahh -- Fred Fielding -- the new consensus choice. (He was) John Dean's deputy. He knew it all.
ALLAN LICHTMAN

[The White House maintains it had no role in any DNC fund-raising. But one expert calls that] passin...
ALLAN LICHTMAN

Bush has to give a compelling reason to voters to make a change. In times of peace and prosperity, t...
ALLAN LICHTMAN

Maybe second term presidents have been on the mountaintop too long, breathing rarified air, and thin...
ALLAN LICHTMAN

A lot of Richard Nixon's very dangerous and un-democratic tendencies were reinforced by the sounding...
ALLAN LICHTMAN

Second term presidencies have been remarkably difficult in the post-war era.
ALLAN LICHTMAN

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign aff...
ALLAN LICHTMAN

selling out the American people on behalf of a very few, big corporate interests.
ALLAN LICHTMAN

This is a very tough one to turn around,
ALLAN LICHTMAN

The notion of limited government and frugal government has been shattered by this administration, wh...
ALLAN LICHTMAN

The big banks are very enthusiastic and we will back them; we see ourselves as a platform for these ...
ALLAN JONES

The boys were sparkling beforehand and it was a matter of calming them down. They kept their discipl...
ALLAN JONES

Global warming is the greatest threat facing the planet today and we are close to passing the tippin...
ALLAN JONES

The benefits to both clubs are obvious. The quality of the A-League being what it is, this is a supe...
ALLAN JONES

I am running out of opponents. They are all either dying or getting hurt.
ALLAN JONES

Holy smokes, you were a state senator? No wonder I got beat.
ALLAN JONES

I am going to be 95 (today). I feel like 95 right now.
ALLAN JONES

I am a kid. I thought I would take these old guys. But, no way.
ALLAN JONES

I mean, things have to fall into place and you have to be very lucky, but I'll tell you, to a man, I...
ALLAN JOHNSON

We fly back right after the game, because being on the quarter system, we start school the next day....
ALLAN JOHNSON

He is as self-motivated as you will ever see. That's what makes him a great role model for the young...
ALLAN JOHNSON

The big thing with Marcus is his discipline. He is such a disciplined athlete on the field and just ...
ALLAN JOHNSON

He had a sense of urgency. He knew his weight and body fat were too high for him to play a lot of mi...
ALLAN JOHNSON

It has been a marked improvement with both aspects,
ALLAN JOHNSON

If you look at it, he dropped his body fat from 22 percent to 10.7 percent. That is a significant nu...
ALLAN JOHNSON

I could not believe the development -- even that strip center. I don't remember even seeing that las...
ALLAN JOHNSON

I'm sorry to say that the BEEHLER band is no longer together. Dan did not want to pursue that projec...
ALLAN JOHNSON

Marcus would come in at 6 a.m.. Then, he would go to his classes and then come back at night and go ...
ALLAN JOHNSON

We think [Baker's proposal] would not have the same accountability and transparency for the American...
ALLAN HUBBARD

We believe that transferring federal tax dollars to the bondholders and shareholders of a private fi...
ALLAN HUBBARD

We are delighted the economy is so strong and we are creating so many jobs.
ALLAN HUBBARD

He's more concerned with results than he is about polls.
ALLAN HUBBARD

It's our understanding that about half of that capacity will be back up and running in one or two we...
ALLAN HUBBARD

We are a nation at war. Obviously, that causes a lot of unease.
ALLAN HUBBARD

None of us are comfortable paying $2.50 per gallon when we go to fill up our cars with gas.
ALLAN HUBBARD

One could argue 2 percent is more appropriate. But that actually changes over time, it's not fixed. ...
ALLAN HUBBARD

There's no question that the recovery will be paid for by the federal taxpayer and it will add to th...
ALLAN HUBBARD

The last thing in the world we even need to be thinking about is raising taxes. A strong economy is ...
ALLAN HUBBARD

I did everything I possibly could to get back and finish my career the way I would have liked to. My...
ALLAN HOUSTON

At the same time I don't want to be disruptive either, ... I want to make sure I'm doing whatever I ...
ALLAN HOUSTON

I feel a little bit of pain here and there,
ALLAN HOUSTON

I think there's trust [between the two men], ... I tried to be honest. I think everyone knows I have...
ALLAN HOUSTON

I'm not going to retire, ... I believe in my heart that I'm going to be back. It would be nice to pl...
ALLAN HOUSTON

[It] was always my dream to finish here.
ALLAN HOUSTON

Like Steph said, you almost feel guilty because there are people 10 hours from us that have lost eve...
ALLAN HOUSTON

You see something like this, driving around in your car, walking around in your house, like Steph sa...
ALLAN HOUSTON

[Fellow Knick Allan Houston also attended.] When you see something like this and drive around in you...
ALLAN HOUSTON

What I will say is the retirement thing is something I've been laughing at, you should be laughing a...
ALLAN HOUSTON

If all the initiatives go down, partisan Democrats will say, 'We beat him today, now let's go beat h...
ALLAN HOFFENBLUM

When the governor started going after those public employee unions he made those rookie mistakes tha...
ALLAN HOFFENBLUM

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse again. That's my advice to him, which...
ALLAN HOFFENBLUM

He needs to reconnect with soft Democrats and independent voters, keep the rhetoric and the jokes do...
ALLAN HOFFENBLUM

Why did they wait several months to respond to attacks from unions? ... They made bad political deci...
ALLAN HOFFENBLUM

They ran a Republican campaign in a Democratic state, and they saw that yesterday in the results.
ALLAN HOFFENBLUM

For most of the Republicans running for office -- if they are a challenger and not an incumbent -- u...
ALLAN HOFFENBLUM

It's a referendum on him and his political team's persuasive abilities.
ALLAN HOFFENBLUM

President Bush is in California for specific reasons that do not involve Governor Schwarzenegger, an...
ALLAN HOFFENBLUM

As for 119, there are a few twists and turns and one revelation in particular that I think readers w...
ALLAN HEINBERG

And, most importantly, knowing what we know now knowing the damage we did would we do the same thing...
ALLAN HEINBERG

Or he wouldn't have stopped it. He would've simply adapted to the situation -- sacrificing his life ...
ALLAN HEINBERG

Just as Batman won't take another life to achieve his own ends, it makes sense to me that he wouldn'...
ALLAN HEINBERG

I think we were both a little nervous about working together in the beginning, too. Just because you...
ALLAN HEINBERG

As for 119, there are a few twists and turns ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ and one revelation i...
ALLAN HEINBERG

And, most importantly, knowing what we know now ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ knowing the damag...
ALLAN HEINBERG

Or he wouldn't have stopped it. He would've simply adapted to the situation -- sacrificing his life ...
ALLAN HEINBERG

Just as Batman won't take another life to achieve his own ends, it makes sense to me that he wouldn'...
ALLAN HEINBERG

I think we were both a little nervous about working together in the beginning, too. Just because you...
ALLAN HEINBERG

It'll be fast moving. I think people will stay interested. We're anticipating between 100 to 150 peo...
ALLAN HALE

One thing that we're going to do differently than before is that we are going to allow them to have ...
ALLAN HALE

This many candidates can be daunting to voters. This forum allows the citizens to get to know more a...
ALLAN HALE

The whole program will be fast moving, so business people can get back to work.
ALLAN HALE

Sometimes I think we ignore, or don't think about that as much. I think in these days, if you follow...
ALLAN HALE

One of the things that's unique about this is that part of the proceeds go back into improving the C...
ALLAN HALE

If you're looking at the numbers of people that we can draw, the state lakes makes us a destination ...
ALLAN HALE

Fremont is a destination,
ALLAN HALE

We're visualizing spreading it around a little bit,
ALLAN HALE

The debilitating effect of the cabinet appointment fiasco is clearly nowhere as large as the cognosc...
ALLAN GREGG

People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative s...
ALLAN GREGG

This much change in this period of time -- especially given how little we've seen previously -- sugg...
ALLAN GREGG

They're not hysterical about this at all.
ALLAN GREGG

If I was Harper right now, I'd go right into Quebec and hold big rallies. Big balloons and marching ...
ALLAN GREGG

Harper has been able to make himself more or less impervious to the attack that we have seen to this...
ALLAN GREGG

People who are in the middle, who think that it's time for a change, they're having a very hard time...
ALLAN GREGG

The temptation to defeat the government will be overwhelming. They know that when this issue fades, ...
ALLAN GREGG

This particular appointment seems to blunt and mute the opposition where it's most pronounced, which...
ALLAN GREGG

It is disturbing that Telstra still has not offered the particular ADSL (asymmetric digital subscrib...
ALLAN FELS

Telstra seems to be favoring its own retail business while continuing to delay services needed by it...
ALLAN FELS

It is disturbing that Telstra still has not offered the particular ADSL (asymmetric digital subscrib...
ALLAN FELS

This also will facilitate new investment in broadband networks
ALLAN FELS

to extend the investigation into wider analysis of possible anti-competitive conduct in the aviation...
ALLAN FELS

I feel a good coach can come in and get this thing rolling right away. This year didn't play out the...
ALLAN EVRIDGE

The people that molded me were my parents. They've always been there for me and provided good leader...
ALLAN EVRIDGE

Seeing stuff helps, but what helps is getting in there and mixing it up a little bit. We're getting ...
ALLAN EVRIDGE

Throughout the week I just tried to take every snap I could. When my number is called, I just have t...
ALLAN EVRIDGE

There are times when you can get away with a chirp at the batsman and there are times when you shoul...
ALLAN DONALD

I have a passion for being around international cricketers. I love being in the dressing room and I ...
ALLAN DONALD

Cricket South Africa did indicate they would try and get me more involved with the national team and...
ALLAN DONALD

I want to put the whole matter behind me, and carry on working with the high performance structures ...
ALLAN DONALD

I have given much thought to the matter, and have withdrawn my application for the England bowling c...
ALLAN DONALD

But I'm passionate about being involved at the highest level of the game, whether it is with England...
ALLAN DONALD

I have felt very frustrated and I would have hoped that my influence in the dressing room might have...
ALLAN DONALD

That will do them a world of good. It's very difficult for a team on tour when they're not performin...
ALLAN DONALD

We must maintain the pace and pressure at both ends.
ALLAN DONALD

England are going to attack by bowling a foot outside off stump.
ALLAN DONALD

The principle is important, because you need someone not under government control whose responsibili...
ALLAN CUTLER

The only really good thing was the principle to have an independent commissioner,
ALLAN CUTLER

The reason that I'm running is that I want to ensure integrity continues to happen, ... Integrity is...
ALLAN CUTLER

I didn't bend in 1996 and I won't now.
ALLAN CUTLER

One of the discussions I had with Stephen Harper is that I wouldn't bend for anybody,
ALLAN CUTLER

I'm a glutton for punishment
ALLAN CUTLER

While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM

Wha the deil hae we got for a king, / But a wee, wee German lairdie!
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM

It's hame and it's hame, hame fain wad I be, / O, hame, hame, hame to my ain countree!
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM

A wet sheet and a flowing sea, / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / ...
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM

I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well be...
ALLAN CARR

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecture...
ALLAN CARR

I think over there in Montreal they're a bit hardcore with the old homos. They're not that keen on t...
ALLAN CARR

I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.
ALLAN CARR

I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.
ALLAN CARR

I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.
ALLAN CARR

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.
ALLAN CARR

I didn't really want to be a comedian.
ALLAN CARR

A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame th...
ALLAN CARR

It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one.
ALLAN CARR

The tests that we have done have not substantiated these claims.
ALLAN BROOKS

I try to come every year, to support the fire department. This is a lot better than McDonald's, and ...
ALLAN BROOKS

There are scores of inquisitive people visiting the Archbishop's House to simply have a look at this...
ALLAN BROOKS

They receive them based on their quality systems, which means that they would have shown strict adhe...
ALLAN BROOKS

It is something really bizarre, but one must appreciate the skill of the man who tried this phenomen...
ALLAN BROOKS

They've opened up their arms and hearts for us. And we're really appreciative of that.
ALLAN BRISTOW

There's just no communication. It's very tough.
ALLAN BRISTOW

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be t...
ALLAN BRISTOW

That's where we start. Hard to say where this thing is going to take us in the next few weeks.
ALLAN BRISTOW

The big thing is where to set up offices and where to play games. We want to make sure that the firs...
ALLAN BRISTOW

That's where we start (looking). Baton Rouge is the closest major city to New Orleans. Hard to say w...
ALLAN BRISTOW

Our cap flexibility is what allowed us to get these two players as part of this deal. We were able t...
ALLAN BRISTOW

One of our top priorities of the summer was to re-sign Chris due to the development of his overall g...
ALLAN BRISTOW

Lonny is a proven NBA player who will be able to give us an inside presence and help fill the void l...
ALLAN BRISTOW

Well probably get it up to 18 players. We've got some young players (already on the roster), and hop...
ALLAN BRISTOW

I have never seen an Aussie team put down so many catches, and the batsmen really need to start to h...
ALLAN BORDER

Write off Australia at your peril. Most sides are at their most dangerous when they are down. If Aus...
ALLAN BORDER

Certainly half a dozen of the team will be looking anxiously over their shoulder and their performan...
ALLAN BORDER

When your bowling is not firing, any captain is going to struggle.
ALLAN BORDER

OK, go away, and I'll find someone who really wants to play for Australia.
ALLAN BORDER

England had a great series,
ALLAN BORDER

He has lost his way, and I think he needs to be replaced in the team before the fourth Test at Trent...
ALLAN BORDER

The Australian bowling outfit is struggling and in particular Jason Gillespie. He has lost his way a...
ALLAN BORDER

Collections collect collectors. It doesn't work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness.

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Allan Gurganus

Collections collect collectors. It doesn't work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness.

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