"A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious……" — Bonnie Jo Campbell
"A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death."
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16 Quotes by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Bonnie Jo Campbell has 16 quotes on this site.
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Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your…
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Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed…
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It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man…
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For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with…
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I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out…
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We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin…
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Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're…
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A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about…
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I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.
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I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
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I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that…
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I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people…
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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