"I'd rather be a flash than a slowly…" — Chris Crutcher
"I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember."
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40 Quotes by Chris Crutcher
Chris Crutcher has 40 quotes on this site.
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You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.
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I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability…
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We get crazy when we can't make things be like the world tells us they are". She looked back out…
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There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.
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I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.
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It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you…
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My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored…
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You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.
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Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being…
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Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel…
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Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during…
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I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the…
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More Burning Quotes
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also…
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to…
— Annie Besant
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
— Aneurin Bevan
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On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it…
— Emily Blunt
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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody…
— Geraldine Brooks
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A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes…
— William S. Burroughs
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Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up…
— George H. W. Bush
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding,…
— Abraham Cahan
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