"I love how intimate I've become with failure."

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Source : Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.28, Copper Canyon Press

Bob Hicok

#Intimate Quotes

“He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.”
“Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.”
“Good luck, little Wanderer, good luck. How I wish you didn't need it.”
“We're Norwegians. You know, the Vikings. My deadlift was 310 pounds. I mean, I was very, very strong - and I didn't take steroids. I did it all on my own.”
“Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.”
“I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'”
“We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.”
“You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.”

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