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title: "2 Long day Quotes By Phillip Lopate"
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> [“The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work than I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and "have fun."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/the-prospect-of-a-long-day-at-the-beach-makes-me-panic-there-is-no/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

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> [The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/the-prospect-of-a-long-day-at-the-beach-makes-me-panic-there-is-no-2/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

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## More by Phillip Lopate

> [Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/have-fun-writing-because-it-enhances-both-the-writer-s-and-reader-s/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

> [A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/a-personal-essay-often-includes-some-or-a-lot-of-personal-confession/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

> [In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/in-new-work-we-need-to-see-the-shadow-however-faint-of-previous/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

> [I'm fortunate in being able to find great satisfaction in my work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/i-m-fortunate-in-being-able-to-find-great-satisfaction-in-my-work/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

> [Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: ‘(Children know it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/why-am-i-attracted-to-all-these-lying-quotes-all-of-a-sudden-here-s/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

> [In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/in-the-best-nonfiction-it-seems-to-me-you-re-always-made-aware-that/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

> [The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/the-dinner-party-is-a-suburban-form-of-entertainment-its-spread-in/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

> [“Fornicating is like parenting: no matter how you do it, you have the guilty sense that somewhere other people are doing it more correctly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/fornicating-is-like-parenting-no-matter-how-you-do-it-you-have-the/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

> [Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/hedonism-can-be-a-rational-response-to-a-difficult-life/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

> [“The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work than I can think of than taking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/the-prospect-of-a-long-day-at-the-beach-makes-me-panic-there-is-no/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

> [I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/i-imagined-a-psychic-pain-growing-inside-him-myself-that-demanded/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

> [Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/think-of-a-dinner-party-as-a-club-of-revolutionaries-a-technocratic/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

> [... I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/i-vowed-that-i-would-always-respect-the-right-of-an-individual-to/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

> [“we who are your closest friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting as a group…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/we-who-are-your-closest-friends-feel-the-time-has-come-to-tell-you/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

> [For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I'm not so sure that's always my first priority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-lopate/for-most-of-my-life-i-have-wanted-broad-impact-but-now-at-72-i-m-not/)

[Phillip Lopate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-lopate/)

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