Chris Crutcher Quotes

• ...el pensamiento y la acción racistas dicen mucho más de la persona de la que proceden que de la persona a la que van dirigidos.

  Chris Crutcher

  Racism, Racist, Action

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• I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

  Chris Crutcher

  Teenager, Real, School

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• I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

  Chris Crutcher

  Thinking, Forever, Important

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• Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

  Chris Crutcher

  Adoption, Bigs, Deals

  Chris Crutcher (2009). “Whale Talk”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• ...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

  Chris Crutcher

  Life Is, Love Each Other, Ifs

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• You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.

  Chris Crutcher

  Equipo, Creer, Dar

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• Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

  Chris Crutcher

  Pain, Joy, Matter

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• I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection.

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  Believe, Bangs, Connections

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• Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

  Chris Crutcher

  Reading, Book, Stories

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• Nothing exists without its opposite.

  Chris Crutcher

  Opuestos

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• I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

  Chris Crutcher

  Memorial Day, Easter, Kings

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• Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

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  Mean, Eye, School

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• It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I think it's impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they're happening.

  Chris Crutcher

  Moving, Thinking, Scary

  Chris Crutcher (1995). “Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes”, Laurel Leaf

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• I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.

  Chris Crutcher

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

  Interview with Jennifer M. Brown, www.publishersweekly.com. Mar 12, 2001.

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• I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

  Chris Crutcher

  Burning, Embers, Flash

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• You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

  Chris Crutcher

  Way, Putting Yourself Out There, Truest

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• If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.

  Chris Crutcher

  Thinking, Numbers, Atoms

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• If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.

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  Mad, Scare, Different

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• I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.

  Chris Crutcher

  Running, Song, Block

  "Whale Talk". Book by Chris Crutcher, 2001.

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• ...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.

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  Growing Up, School, Expectations

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• If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.

  Chris Crutcher

  Thinking, Life Sucks, Doe

  Chris Crutcher (2010). “Angry Management”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

  Chris Crutcher

  Mad, Language

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• A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

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  Sports, Integrity, People

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• There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

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  Jesus, Kings, Perspective

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• But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

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  Needs, Being True, Known

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