"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner……" — John C. Hawkes
"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening."
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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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In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
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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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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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I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss…
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform…
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes…
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I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.
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My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go…
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle,…
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not…
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One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even…
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