Philip Connors Quotes

• One of the things about living in the shadow of a suicide is that everyone involved is going to have some guilt, is going to wonder, 'What could I have done? What could I have said?'

  Philip Connors

  Suicide, Guilt, Shadow

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• The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.

  Philip Connors

  Sleep, Thinking, Mountain

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• I’ve always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another…… transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the juxtapositions, the collisions and connections. I like the way they help me see the world from a fresh angle.

  Philip Connors

  Mixing, Transition, Connections

  Philip Connors (2011). “Fire Season: Field notes from a wilderness lookout”, p.124, Pan Macmillan

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• Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.

  Philip Connors

  Groundhog Day, What If, Today

  "Fictional character: Phil Connors". "Groundhog Day", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!'

  Philip Connors

  Nice, Wine, Beer

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