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title: "1 Music Rhythmic Quotes By Allan Gurganus"
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> [There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/there-s-a-kind-of-ear-music-a-rhythmic-synchronicity-which-creates-a/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

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## More by Allan Gurganus

> [Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/without-much-accuracy-with-strangely-little-love-at-all-your-family/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

> [“The tree feels splintery, nasty to my touch; it feels Floridian, more reptile than vegetable, more stucco than stone. I do loathe this state,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/the-tree-feels-splintery-nasty-to-my-touch-it-feels-floridian-more/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

> [Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/writing-is-a-kind-of-free-fall-that-you-then-go-back-and-edit-and/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

> [Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/know-something-sugar-stories-only-happen-to-people-who-can-tell-them/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

> [You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/you-know-right-often-the-body-is-the-best-thing-we-ve-got-going-for/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

> [“He, the true writer, is the department store dummy at the very center of the whole establishment, the one left alone on display all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/he-the-true-writer-is-the-department-store-dummy-at-the-very-center/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

> [“Lord-Express have mercy on our stop-making, stuttering local. Place me expressly beyond these stares, past such terrible embarrassment. I say I do not feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/lord-express-have-mercy-on-our-stop-making-stuttering-local-place-me/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

> [“The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human. That means one hundred and fifty million…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/the-chances-of-achieving-literary-performance-are-to-the-decimal/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

> [“Imagine how titanic an echo chamber this great city would seem without the noise of eve none of mine. A huge bronze bell deprived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/imagine-how-titanic-an-echo-chamber-this-great-city-would-seem/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

> [There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/there-s-a-kind-of-ear-music-a-rhythmic-synchronicity-which-creates-a/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

> [You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/you-have-a-different-kind-of-tenderness-for-everybody-you-know/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

> [“We'd die here, old together, safe with each other's secrets. We were each other's juvenilia”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/we-d-die-here-old-together-safe-with-each-other-s-secrets-we-were/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

> [“Fifteen, that’s the age when the only world event that counts is whatever mood you’re in that day.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/fifteen-that-s-the-age-when-the-only-world-event-that-counts-is/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

> [I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was innocent enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/i-think-walt-whitman-went-to-the-help-wanted-section-and-found-a/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

> [Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-gurganus/beware-of-using-up-your-last-forty-years-in-being-the-curator-of-your/)

[Allan Gurganus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-gurganus/)

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