Harry Crews Quotes

Harry Eugene Crews was an American novelist, playwright, short story writer and essayist.

✵ 7. June 1935 – 28. March 2012

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Famous Harry Crews Quotes

“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.”

“That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.”

Source: A Feast of Snakes

“If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come back to you/ If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it.”

Source: Body

“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.”

Source: Blood and Grits

“survival is triumph enough.”

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