Naked in Garden Hills Quotes

“I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide!”
― Harry Crews, Naked in Garden Hills

“She was a great-hipped, heavy-legged woman with breasts that haunt the dreams of hungry men.
She was repulsed by Michelangelo’s Creation on the ceiling of the bathroom.
“The body is the work of the Devil,” she said.
But Fat Man’s father only laughed at her and lay superimposing her head onto the shoulders of Adam, pretending that naked Adam was his wife.
And he had sired his son with his wife fully clothed and shoed in a dark room in the middle of the night with her jaws clenched and her teeth grinding and her Bible clutched to her bosom with both hands.”
― Harry Crews, Naked in Garden Hills