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> [The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/the-truth-of-the-matter-was-stories-was-everything-and-everything-was/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

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## More by Harry Crews

> [Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/alcohol-whipped-me-alcohol-and-i-had-many-many-marvelous-times/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

> [I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/i-ve-never-enjoyed-myself-i-m-incapable-of-enjoying-myself-there-s/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

> [If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/if-you-wait-until-you-got-time-to-write-a-novel-or-time-to-write-a/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

> [Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/teaching-real-teaching-is-or-ought-to-be-a-messy-business/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

> [The writer's job is to get naked...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/the-writer-s-job-is-to-get-naked/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

> [Men to whom God is dead worship one another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/men-to-whom-god-is-dead-worship-one-another/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

> [There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/there-ought-to-be-a-law-against-the-sun-rising-and-setting-for-you-in/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

> [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/if-you-love-something-set-it-free-if-it-loves-you-it-will-come-back/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

> [That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/that-was-the-only-decision-there-was-once-upon-a-time-what-to-do-with/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

> [“everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/everybody-he-knew-was-going-quietly-mad-from-being-tied-on-a-leash/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

> [“Survival is truimph enough.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/survival-is-truimph-enough/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

> [“She felt the snake between her breasts, felt him there, and loved him there, coiled, the deep tumescent S held rigid, ready to strike.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/she-felt-the-snake-between-her-breasts-felt-him-there-and-loved-him/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

> [I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/i-am-not-perfect-it-came-out-in-a-rush-of-breath-see-i-thought-i-was/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

> [Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/writing-a-book-is-like-torture-that-you-don-t-know-but-after-it-s/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

> [Survival is triumph enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/survival-is-triumph-enough/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

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