Bob Hicok famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.
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I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling, somewhere else it gets back up.
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My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.
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Here, when I say I never want to be without you, somewhere else I am saying I never want to be without you again. And when I touch you in each of the places we meet, in all of the lives we are, it's with hands that are dying and resurrected. When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life, in each place and forever
-- Bob Hicok
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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
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When I fart my ***** makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell.
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Pompous ***** knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit!
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If you're not in the arena also getting your ***** kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback.
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Why you got your ***** on your shoulders?
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