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But after awhile you stand up, wipe the frost out of your ear, go someplace to get warm, bum a nickel for coffee, and then start walkin' toward somewheres else that ain't near no bridge. -- William Kennedy
Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory. -- William Kennedy
Only a bet on the impossible makes sense. It is an act of faith and courage requiring an irrational leap over reason. A man wins simply by making such a bet. -- William Kennedy
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. -- William Kennedy
It's quite uncanny what one sets in motion by being oneself. -- William Kennedy
And what if I did drink too much? Whose business is that? Who knows how much I didn't drink? -- William Kennedy
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it. -- William Kennedy
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. -- William Kennedy
Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review. -- William Kennedy
But fear is a cheap emotion, however full of wisdom. And, emotionally speaking, I've always thought of myself as a man of expensive taste. -- William Kennedy
We are only possible as what happened to us yesterday. We all change as well move -- William Kennedy
There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. -- William Kennedy
Love, is always insufficient, always a lie. Love, you are the clean shit of my soul. Stupid love, silly love. -- William Kennedy
I liked all their lies best, for I think they are the brightest part of anybody's history. -- William Kennedy
Katie bar the door. -- William Kennedy
Anger makes people stupid. -- William Kennedy
You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown. -- William Kennedy
One never knows the potential within the human breast. -- William Kennedy