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Clancy Martin

(1966) Novelist

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Clancy Martin is a novelist.

Quick Facts About Clancy Martin

Born: November 30, 1966
Profession: Novelist

About Clancy Martin

[Wikidata] Canadian writer and philosopher... | [Wikipedia] Clancy Martin is a Canadian philosopher, novelist, and essayist. His interests focus on 19th century philosophy, existentialism, moral psychology, philosophy and literature, ethics & behavioral health, applied and professional ethics and philosophy of mind.

Quotes by Clancy Martin

“A suicide attempt can be very much like falling in love. You're not really sure, as you proceed, what is real and…

Falling in love

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That is the person you want publishing your book. To be in it, you really have to believe in books and love…

Believe

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Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on…

Capable

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It's the same when you listen to any kind of successful athlete. My older brother has a useful name for them -…

Athlete

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That's the old AA maxim, "Always have a drink in your hand and you'll never want a drink." That's one of the…

Books

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I don't care about the politics, I don't care about the practicality, I don't care about any of it.

Care

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When I was writing Love and Lies, I was going over a lot of my old notes to see if there were…

Arthur

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What is the most fascinating kind of self-deception to me, and a kind that isn't necessarily unhealthy, is what Friedrich Nietzsche called…

Accomplish

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I guess we romanticize the loser.

Loser

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Unreflective self-deception leads people into hypocrisy and all sorts of moral failings. When you look at these people who are busy pontificating…

Busy

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