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Three of them. All from Harry Crews.

This one from an interview with Vice.

I like a lot of things that are really not fashionable and really not very nice and which finally, if you've got any sense at all, you know, are totally indefensible. Anybody who is going to defend much of the way I've spent my life is mad. Crazy. It's just that there's so much horseshit in the world. How can you live through it without being madder than hell?

This one taken from Maud Newton, who has a write-up of Harry Crews for The Awl.

I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

And this one from the introduction to Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader.

"We are the sum of all our moments," Thomas Wolfe said. Thank God, I believe that. Nothing is wasted on a writer. If you are lucky, somewhere in the work there will be a place for the unspeakable and the unendurable. Somewhere the bad will fit seamlessly with the good.