9 Quotes & Sayings By James Dickey

James Dickey (1915 – 1983) was an American novelist and short story writer. Dickey wrote with a unique and powerful voice, and with a style and sense of place that remain as compelling today as they were during the 1960s and 1970s when he wrote. His works include Deliverance, which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film of the same name; The Confessions of Nat Turner; Theuta; and others.

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.. Up telephone poles, Which rear, half out of leavage As though they would shriek Like things smothered by their own Green, mindless, unkillable ghosts. In Georgia, the legend says That you must close your windows At night to keep it out of the house The glass is tinged with green, even so, As the tendrils crawl over the fields. The night the Kudzu has Your pasture, you sleep like the dead. Silence has grown oriental And you cannot step upon the ground.. A L L: Kudzu by James Dickey . James Dickey
The women of the South have brought into American literature...
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The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. James Dickey
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Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel. James Dickey
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In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else. James Dickey
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I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the hill, and I can swear to you there is a part of me that is absolutely untouched by anything civilized. There's a part of me that has never heard of a telephone. James Dickey
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I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around.... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it. James Dickey
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Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history. James Dickey
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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. James Dickey