"Men to whom God is dead worship one…" — Harry Crews
"Men to whom God is dead worship one another."
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25 Quotes by Harry Crews
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We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer,…
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Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church,…
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I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.
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I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can…
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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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I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you…
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The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.
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Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a…
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The writer's job is to get naked...
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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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More Dead Quotes
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
— Paul Auster
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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