H.W. Charles Quotes

we must bringour own lightto thedarkness.

I remember yoursaying: "make itor break it."neither happened anditwon't.

I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie.

It got so bad that Al thoughtmaybe it washimso he went to a shrinkand askedand the shrink said, "you're one of the sanest menI've ever met."poor Al.that made him feelworse than ever.

Jag föddes för att kränga rosor på de dödas avenyer

crawled like a blind slug into the web

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well, " I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

the writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever

take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning

Don’t ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out

Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje.

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.

I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwithout getting fed.

it's good to have things done withwhen they don't workit's also good not to hateor even forgetthe person you've failed with.

Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

a life can change in a tenth ofa second.or sometimes it can take70years.

sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

I am too sick to lay downthe sidewalks frighten methe whole damned city frightens me, what I will becomewhat I have becomefrightens me.

I didn't like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it - I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a room with the shades down. I feasted upon that. I was a crank. I was a lunatic.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people are stricken wth fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not

I love you butdon't know what todo.

I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings.

I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.

I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the jokeof usthe seriousness of usthe dullness of us

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece ofspecious humbug designed to conceal it's desire for economic control ofthe Southern states.

I think I know the delights of freedom

Do you hate people?”“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.

Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?

You're the most unknown famous man I ever met

There's too much coldness in the world, " I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help.

I don't know. It's been terribly hard for me. How do I know you won't do it again?''Nobody is ever quite sure of what they will do. You aren't sure what you might do.

When women agree with me I always do the other thing

I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.

good weatheris likegood women—it doesn’t always happenand when it doesit doesn’talways last.

Education was the new god, and educated men the new plantation masters.

All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.

that's what kills a man: lack of change.

The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him.

She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart