"What a bog and labyrinth the human essence……" — Barry Hannah
"What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned."
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32 Quotes by Barry Hannah
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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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Literature is the history of the soul.
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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