"The truth of the matter was stories was……" — Harry Crews
"The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right."
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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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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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There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is…
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