quotes by Harry Crews

"I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world."
— Harry Crews (Getting Naked With Harry Crews: Interviews)

"That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night. -- A Feast of Snakes"
— Harry Crews

"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.
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— Harry Crews (Blood and Grits)

""Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.""
— Harry Crews

"If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come back to you/ If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it."
— Harry Crews (BODY: A Novel)