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Harry Crews Quotes



Quotes by Harry Crews - (7 quotes)

Harry Crews - From the Artists category:

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living. (Harry Crews)

Harry Crews - From the Courage category:

It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first cause - to look at them and make something of them. (Harry Crews)

Harry Crews - From the Drunkenness category:

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up.' (Harry Crews)

Harry Crews - From the Failure category:

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure. (Harry Crews)

Harry Crews - From the Suffering category:

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. (Harry Crews)

Harry Crews - From the Survival category:

Survival is triumph enough. (Harry Crews)

Harry Crews - From the Teaching category:

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business. (Harry Crews)