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. Harry Crews More Quotes by Harry Crews More Quotes From Harry Crews Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business. Harry Crews messyrealteaching God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the car -- out of pure malevolence no doubt -- changed the history of the world by reinventing man. Harry Crews carheartmen I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide! Harry Crews weedsuiciderunning Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything else, I think it's the closest that a man can come to knowing what is feels like to have a baby. Harry Crews writingbabybook I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much. Harry Crews incapableenjoypeople 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 himgoodknowlove
