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Harry Crews
American
Novelist
About the author
Survival is triumph enough.
Harry Crews,
American
Novelist
#Survival
Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.
Harry Crews,
American
Novelist
#Teaching
#Business
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,
American
Novelist
#Hurt
#Nature
What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
Harry Crews,
American
Novelist
#Work
#World
#Living
#Artist
He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.
Harry Crews,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Cure