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Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night.

Barry Hannah

Literature is the history of the soul.
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History Literature Soul
A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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Chosen Jobs Mean
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
I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I’m glad I was disabused.
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Drinking Love Writing
I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they’re not. They’re not out there waiting. They’re not gonna use their intelligence on your book.
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Book Intelligent Writing
I don’t really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
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Care Different Plot
What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is… We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
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Bogs Essence Labyrinth
If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren’t really there.
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Able Men Suffering
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don’t get it. I don’t get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I’m doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn’t think you ever had.
BARRY HANNAH

Thinking Two Writing
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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Alcoholism Family Genes Hate
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.
BARRY HANNAH

Dog Heart Soul
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 Motorcycle Writing
There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.
BARRY HANNAH

School Students Teacher
My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
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Concern Form Stories
I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, “Listen to this!”
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Inspiration Listen Love Say Wife
You’ve got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.
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Halfway Interested Lie Lying

Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night.

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