"I am not perfect." It came out in……" — 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 thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide!"
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25 Quotes by Harry Crews
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If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to…
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The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way…
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The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.
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Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.
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What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
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