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Harry Crews

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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


#beautiful #closed #done #healed #hurt

everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.


— Harry Crews


#family

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


#carried #contagion #cure #did #good

Survival is triumph enough.


— Harry Crews


#survival #triumph

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.


— Harry Crews


#messy #ought #real #teaching

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.


— Harry Crews


#his #living #model #owes #work






About Harry Crews






Did you know about Harry Crews?

Crews was the subject of the first installment of the Rough South documentary series written and directed by Gary Hawkins. He publiHarry Crewsd a memoir in 1978 titled A Childhood: The Biography of a Place. In 1964 Patrick Scott drowned in a neighbor's pool.

Death" (from the poem Buffalo Bill's by e. Crews formerly taught in the creative writing program at the University of Florida. The University of Georgia acquired Harry Crews's papers in August 2006.

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