James Dickey
Novelist
1923-02-02
Books by James Dickey
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Deliverance
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Flight or Fright
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Poems, 1957-1967
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Quotes by James Dickey
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In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.
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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.
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The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
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... Up telephone poles, Which rear, half out of leavageAs though they would shriekLike things smothered by their ownGreen, mindless, unkillable ghosts.In Georgia, the legend saysThat you must close your windowsAt night to keep it out of the houseThe glass is tinged with green, even so,As the tendrils crawl over the fields.The night the Kudzu hasYour pasture, you sleep like the dead.Silence has grown orientalAnd you cannot step upon the ground...ALL: Kudzu by James Dickey
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In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.
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... Up telephone poles, Which rear, half out of leavageAs though they would shriekLike things smothered by their ownGreen, mindless, unkillable ghosts.In Georgia, the legend saysThat you must close your windowsAt night to keep it out of the houseThe glass is tinged with green, even so,As the tendrils crawl over the fields.The night the Kudzu hasYour pasture, you sleep like the dead.Silence has grown orientalAnd you cannot step upon the ground...ALL: Kudzu by James Dickey
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The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
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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.
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The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
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A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
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The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
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Flight is the only truly new sensation that men have achieved in modern history.
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