"In The Lime Twig I took two very……" — John C. Hawkes
"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old."
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12 Quotes by John C. Hawkes
John C. Hawkes has 12 quotes on this site.
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My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the…
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I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.
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When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way…
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I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.
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On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.
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As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
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The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
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I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
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To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
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I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.
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When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.
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More Lime Quotes
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball…
— Harlan Coben
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I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't…
— Maya Angelou
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So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand,…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
— Robert Herrick
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Breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just…
— Bruce Oldfield
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I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated,…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a…
— Eric Clapton
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By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies…
— David F. Houston
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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
— Raymond Chandler
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To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum,…
— Harry Houdini
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And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled…
— Theodore Roethke
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