He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.


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I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
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My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insuranc...
BARRY HANNAH
I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague....
BARRY HANNAH
I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I need...
BARRY HANNAH
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like...
BARRY HANNAH
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it ...
BARRY HANNAH
I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've...
BARRY HANNAH
My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
BARRY HANNAH
Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write so...
BARRY HANNAH
I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly....
BARRY HANNAH
My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mothe...
BARRY HANNAH
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club...
BARRY HANNAH
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is ess...
BARRY HANNAH
When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thi...
BARRY HANNAH
Love and despair go hand in hand.
BARRY HANNAH
I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of...
BARRY HANNAH
I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
BARRY HANNAH
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work in...
BARRY HANNAH
A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
BARRY HANNAH
I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That...
BARRY HANNAH
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain ...
BARRY HANNAH
Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little aw...
BARRY HANNAH
I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook a...
HANNAH STORM
Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
HANOI HANNAH
I had to do something for the country.
HANOI HANNAH
And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.
HANOI HANNAH
We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.
HANOI HANNAH
Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast...
HANOI HANNAH
It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the Fr...
HANOI HANNAH
Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
HANOI HANNAH
I would like to see America some day.
HANOI HANNAH
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstru...
HANOI HANNAH