Kent Haruf Quotes

Alan Kent Haruf was an American novelist.

✵ 24. February 1943 – 30. November 2014

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Famous Kent Haruf Quotes

“You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.”

Kent Haruf

“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”

Kent Haruf

Source: Our Souls at Night

“He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.”

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Source: Eventide

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