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Robert Stone quotes

American Novelist August 21, 1937

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Robert Stone quote: "If you haven't fought for your life for something you want,..."
If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about. Robert Stone
He had undertaken a little assay at the good fight and found that neither the good nor the fight was left to him . . . he had gone after life again and they had shown him life and made him eat it. Robert Stone
Robert Stone quote: "I’ve been waiting my whole life to fuck up like this."
I’ve been waiting my whole life to fuck up like this. Robert Stone
Robert Stone quote: "Life is a means of extracting fiction."
Life is a means of extracting fiction. Robert Stone
The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in progress. For the past fifty or so, a kind of slow terror has been rising in his breast. All these pages had seemed necessary. They contain many good things. Ironies. Insights. And yet they seem to have a certain ineffable unsatisfactoriness. There is a word to describe this quality, the writer thinks, a horrible word. The B word. He begins to strike his forehead with... Robert Stone
If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell. Robert Stone
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information. Robert Stone
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on. Robert Stone
Robert Stone quote: "What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in..."
What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export. Robert Stone
Robert Stone quote: "Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and..."
Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow? Robert Stone
I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America. Robert Stone
I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging. Robert Stone
The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you. Robert Stone
Robert Stone quote: "That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world..."
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely. Robert Stone
The mixtures of shells and light makes you confused and unhappy. One side employing the force of he other merging. You're one of those people who hears the sun come up. Robert Stone

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