"Speaks well of a man to need a……" — Harry Crews
"Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober."
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25 Quotes by Harry Crews
Harry Crews has 25 quotes on this site.
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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 Cold Quotes
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Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested…
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when…
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
— Luis Barragan
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
— Bernard Baruch
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
— George Ade
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I love cold, rainy weather.
— Catherine Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems…
— Adele
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
— John Betjeman
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