Best Quotes by Kenneth Patchen (Top 10)
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The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.
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Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?
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Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.
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There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?
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Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.
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Art is not to throw light but to be light...
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All at Once Is What Eternity Is.
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Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it done with humility… A man is a sacred thing. ANY ACTION OR THOUGHT WHICH INJURES THE HUMAN IMAGINATION IS EVIL.
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God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.
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You will protect with the last drop of someone else's blood what was never yours.
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More Kenneth Patchen Quotes
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It's dark out, Jack, the stations out there don't identify themselves, we're in it raw-blind like burned rats, it's running out all around us, the footprints of the beast, one nobody has any notion of. The white and vacant eyes of something above there, something that doesn't know we exist. I smell heartbreak up there, Jack, a heartbreak at the center of things, and in which we don't figure at all.
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O take heart, my brothers. Even now... with every leader & every resource & every strategy of every nation on Earth arrayed against Her - Even now, O even now, my brothers, Life is in no danger of losing the argument! - For after all .... (as will be shown) She has only to change the subject.
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Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it.
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The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.
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