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Leave me alone, you big fat shitburger!
— Chris Crutcher
Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking.
— Chris Crutcher
Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.
— Chris Crutcher
He goes for people's open wounds, then brings God in with air support. You have to agree, there's a certain cowardice to that approach.
— Chris Crutcher
A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always dying in my life.
— Chris Crutcher
There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.
— Chris Crutcher
It wasn't a very Christian thing to do, that's all.
— Chris Crutcher
Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.
— Chris Crutcher
The only truly ruined people are those who believe they are.
— Chris Crutcher
Taking on someone else's monsters will kill you. He
— Chris Crutcher
Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.
— Chris Crutcher
That's where God watches us from: from a distance.
— Chris Crutcher
It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.
— Chris Crutcher
If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.
— Chris Crutcher
He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.
— Chris Crutcher
We can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.
— Chris Crutcher
The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.
— Chris Crutcher
I think most of us tell ourselves we don't want what we think we can't have just to make life bearable.
— Chris Crutcher
You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.
— Chris Crutcher
When you're different, on the down side, you learn to live from one scarce rich moment to the next, no matter the distance between.
— Chris Crutcher
You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.
— Chris Crutcher
Sarah Byrnes was home with Lemery and safe from her father. I knew i didnt have to protect her anymore now that she is with someone I trust.
— Chris Crutcher
Nothing exists without its opposite.
— Chris Crutcher
What I hope we can learn is to be aware of how our beliefs color what we see. I wanted to tell Brittain that Lemry was trying
— Chris Crutcher
And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.
— Chris Crutcher
He knew that we take what the universe gives us, and we either get the most out of it or we don't, but in the end we all go out the same way.
— Chris Crutcher
Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.
— Chris Crutcher
Racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
— Chris Crutcher
The longer I wait the more reasons I can think of why it means something other than what I thought it meant when I first read it.
— Chris Crutcher
Hey, cowboy, what's happening?
— Chris Crutcher
As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.
— Chris Crutcher
I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.
— Chris Crutcher
But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.
— Chris Crutcher
It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.
— Chris Crutcher
I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.
— Chris Crutcher
Sometimes I wish I could have religion their way. You know, no responsibilities in life but to cut down people who don't think the way you do.
— Chris Crutcher
Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.
— Chris Crutcher
I believe there is important shit to be dealt with.
— Chris Crutcher
Man with Brain the Size of Tic Tac Mates with Amoeba Couple gives birth to giant adjusto; names him Dale
— Chris Crutcher
Adopted.
Big Deal; so was Superman — Chris Crutcher
Big Deal; so was Superman — Chris Crutcher
I figure if those things were in God's jurisdiction, he'd do something different about them. But they aren't. Those are in our jurisdiction.
— Chris Crutcher
I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Shorts' or any of my books shelved.
— Chris Crutcher
If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.
— Chris Crutcher
There isn't an entity in the universe that does not know about love.
— Chris Crutcher
Tonight sometime the full reality will dawn on him, but he's like me: the guy you want at the site where the plane went down.
— Chris Crutcher
My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.
— Chris Crutcher
I love Chris Crutcher, Sara Zarr, Lois Lowry, Elizabeth Scott, Madeleine L'Engle, Gordon Korman, Michelle Magorian, Heather Bouwman.
— Lisa McMann
My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.
— Chris Crutcher
If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.
— Chris Crutcher