"Literature is the history of the soul." — Barry Hannah
"Literature is the history of the soul."
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Barry Hannah
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32 Quotes by Barry Hannah
Barry Hannah has 32 quotes on this site.
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Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out…
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If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
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You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.
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The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
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Professional Southerners sicken me.
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I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"
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I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed…
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from…
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was…
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked…
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Love and despair go hand in hand.
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Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee…
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More History Quotes
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one of 10,030 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
— Aristotle
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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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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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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