Our Own Skins Quotes by John Berryman

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John Berryman has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• We must travel in the direction of our fear.
• The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point,…
• Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and…
• So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame…
• Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.
• Literature bores me, especially great literature
• Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.
• We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.
• One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.
• Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
• Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
• This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.

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