4 Quotes & Sayings By Ian Mcguire

Ian McGuire has been a professional writer and editor since 1988. Currently, he is the editor in chief of Books and Culture, a site that covers pop culture and literature. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Publisher's Weekly, BookPage, The Wall Street Journal, O: The Oprah Magazine, and other publications. McGuire is the co-author of Reading Rhetoric: An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric and New Testament Greek Read more

He holds a BA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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The most important questions are the ones we can't hope to answer with words. Words are like toys : they amuse and educate us for a time, but when we come to manhood, we should give them up.' Sunmer shakes his head.' The words are all we have, ' he says.' If we give them up, we are no better than the beasts.' Otto smiles at Sunmer's wrong headedness.' Then you must find out the explanations on your own, if that is what you truly think. Ian McGuire
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The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone? Ian McGuire
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Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do. Ian McGuire