David Ferrie quotes

David Ferrie quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“To leave this life, to me, is a sweet prospect. When you read this I will be quite dead and no answer will be possible. All I can say is that I offered you love, and the best I could. All I got in return in the end was a kick in the teeth. Thus I die alone and unloved. As you sowed, so shall you reap.”
-- David Ferrie

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“Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.”
“I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the world's longest queue. Just for the pleasure of a moment with you.”
“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.”
“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.”
“I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.”
“Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.”
“POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.”
“All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.”

Source : Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.549, Univ of California Press
“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?”
“Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.”

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