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

Barry Hannah

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

Joy Narrative Pain
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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Art Hurt People
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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Album Musician Writing
I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.
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Audience Country Light Misjudge
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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Believe Night Rabbits
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
Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?
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Children Grew Parents Up
You’ve got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.
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Halfway Interested Lie Lying
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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Clubs Glee Long
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
Professional Southerners sicken me.
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Professional Sicken Southerner
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
The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer’s drug, but I’m glad that’s been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.
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Alcohol Drinking Hate
I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, “Listen to this!”
BARRY HANNAH

Inspiration Listen Love Say Wife
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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Agony People Thinking
What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is… We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
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Bogs Essence Labyrinth

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