Barry Hannah Quotes

• The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.

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  Dog, Heart, Soul

  Barry Hannah (2010). “Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories”, p.398, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Professional Southerners sicken me.

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  Sureño

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• Literature is the history of the soul.

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  Alma, Literatura

  Barry Hannah (2010). “Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories”, p.457, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must let yourself be loved and you must love, parts of you that never loved must open and love. You must announce yourself in all particulars so you can have yourself.

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  Love You, And Love, Thieves

  Barry Hannah (2010). “Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories”, p.334, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

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  Essence, Labyrinth, Bogs

  Barry Hannah (2007). “Airships”, p.53, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.

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  Long, Clubs, Glee

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• The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.

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  Might, Howl, Wretched

  Barry Hannah (2010). “Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

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  Stories, Form, Concern

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• I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.

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  Gratitude, Believe, Writing

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• You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

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  Joy, Needs, Hell

  Barry Hannah (2007). “Yonder Stands Your Orphan”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

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  Writing, Done, Too Much

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• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

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  Country, Writing, Motorcycle

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• If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

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  Men, Suffering, Able

  Barry Hannah (2002). “Yonder Stands Your Orphan”, p.323, Grove Press

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• You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.

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  Lying, Halfway

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• Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

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  Pain, Joy, Narrative

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• I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

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  Writing, Kind, Flaws

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• No me importa mucho la trama; quiero que la página gire de otra manera.

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  Different, Plot, Care

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

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  Writing, Musician, Albums

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

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  Fun, Writing, Jumping

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• My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

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  Plot, Stories, Language

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

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  Hate, My Family, Genes

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

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  Thinking, Agony, People

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• Descubrí las críticas muy pronto. La mayoría las escriben hombres tristes en malas tardes. Probablemente por eso estoy menos enfadado que algunos escritores, que son tan narcisistas que consideran cada línea de cada crítica, aunque sea reflexiva, como una traición mayor.

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  Men, Thoughtful, Afternoon

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• El tiempo es lo que hace las buenas historias. Mucho se ha estado cocinando durante mucho tiempo, y por fin un día encuentra salida en la narración. Es una alegría suprema. Y la razón por la que los personajes siguen apareciendo.

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  Character, Long, Joy

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• I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.

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  Gun, Pistols, Stuff

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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