"Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up."

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Source : FaceBook post by Kent Haruf from Oct 29, 2011

Kent Haruf

#Men Quotes #House Quotes #Smoking Quotes

“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”
“In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.”
“Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live.”

Source : Paul Pearsall (2009). “Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need: Repress Your Anger, Think Negatively, be a Good Blamer and Throttle Your Inner Child”, p.45, Basic Books
“I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.”

Source : Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. October 26, 2009.
“He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.”
“We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.”
“I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to find some way to put things - meaning images and forms - together that highlighted some idea of what was underneath the surface of an image, what determined how something was seen.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I can't do the movies like I do painting because I am really more of a sort of dilettante or something. I mean I know guys that make movies that I can see it is absolutely their medium and they can just go from one movie right into the next because it is just - they have got it so much on the tips of their fingers. But for me it is a special effort.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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