Old Man In The Sea Quotes by Harry Crews

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“The real artist with no tear in his eye and no sadness in his heart, puts the pages in the fire and does it again!" "All art is a metaphor it's by telling you one thing when your mean something…

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Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one…

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I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.

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If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands…

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Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

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The writer's job is to get naked...

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Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

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There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

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“If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come back to you/ If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it.”

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That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.

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“everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.”

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“Survival is truimph enough.”

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“She felt the snake between her breasts, felt him there, and loved him there, coiled, the deep tumescent S held rigid, ready to strike. She loved the way the snake looked sewn onto her V-neck letter sweater, his hard diamondback pattern shining in the sun. It was unseasonably hot, almost sixty degrees, for early November in Mystic, Georgia, and she…

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