Tony Harrison quotes
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“Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.”
-- Tony HarrisonSource : 1978 'On Not Being Milton'.
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“I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.”
-- Tony HarrisonSource : 1989 In the Observer, 23 Jul.
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“The ones we choose to love become our anchorwhen the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.”
-- Tony HarrisonSource : Tony Harrison, “V”
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“Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great.”
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“My favorite memories were never about candy or anything like that. When I got to be a teenager, my friends and I used to get together and do all kinds of crazy stuff on Halloween night. We had a ball starting trouble. Now that I'm more mature I realize that wasn't the right way to act, but it was the time of my life back then.”
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“I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get you. I was terrified of that stuff becoming true. My older cousins used to say things to make us believe crazy stories like that, so I was scared of the Candymanuntil I knew better.”
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“I always like to be somebody scary. When I was little, my mom used to make our costumes. She's really creative and would make us great costumes without having to spend a lot.”
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“I don't really have one type favorite type of candy. When I was younger we used to always go to the rich neighborhoods where they give out the big candy bars, not the little fun-sized ones. We'd go back two and three times, hit them again and again. They didn't care and we loved it.”
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Source : A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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“Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.”
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