{"author":"Chris Crutcher","author_id":"Chris+Crutcher","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"We get crazy when we can't make things be like the world tells us they are'. She looked back out the window. 'It was that way for me and your brother, I think. I mean, how could I have loved him that last year? I didn't even know who he was. He was way more attracted to drugs and bikers and that whole lifestyle than he was to me. But somebody told me that if you really loved somebody,you stayed with him no matter what. You had to fight for him.' She laughe. 'Hell, I was convinced.","author":"Chris Crutcher","tags":["fighting","love"],"id":2835,"author_id":"Chris+Crutcher"},{"text":"144461I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection. We want to be noticed, we want to be good enough, we want friends, and we want to be loved. We want our place to stand.","author":"Chris Crutcher","tags":["biography","humor"],"id":3754,"author_id":"Chris+Crutcher"},{"text":"From a distance,' he says, 'my car looks just like every other car on the freeway, and Sarah Byrnes looks just like the rest of us. And if she's going to get help, she'll get it from herself or she'll get it from us. Let me tell you why I brought this up. Because the other day when I saw how hard it was for Mobe to go to the hospital to see her, I was embarrassed that I didn't know her better, that I ever laughed at one joke about her. I was embarrassed that I let some kid go to school with me for twelve years and turned my back on pain that must be unbearable. I was embarrassed that I haven't found a way to include her somehow the way Mobe has.'Jesus. I feel tears welling up, and I see them running down Ellerby's cheeks. Lemry better get a handle on this class before it turns into some kind of therapy group.So,' Lemry says quietly, 'your subject will be the juxtaposition of man and God in the universe?'Ellerby shakes his head. 'My subject will be shame.","author":"Chris Crutcher","tags":["christian-behavior","fiction","moral-courage","profound"],"id":26999,"author_id":"Chris+Crutcher"},{"text":"A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.","author":"Chris Crutcher","tags":["athletics","integrity","sports","truth"],"id":27469,"author_id":"Chris+Crutcher"},{"text":"When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact experience.","author":"Chris Crutcher","tags":["experience","know","you "],"id":88315,"author_id":"Chris+Crutcher"},{"text":"...Racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.","author":"Chris Crutcher","tags":["bigotry","prejudice","racism","small-mindedness"],"id":94999,"author_id":"Chris+Crutcher"},{"text":"Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.","author":"Chris Crutcher","tags":["comedy","perspective","tragedy"],"id":106627,"author_id":"Chris+Crutcher"},{"text":"What I hope my writing reflects... Is a sense of the connections between all human beings... And a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about.","author":"Chris Crutcher","tags":["nature","hope","writing "],"id":140867,"author_id":"Chris+Crutcher"},{"text":"Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intravenous drug use. It is simply an opportunistic virus that does what it has to do to stay alive.","author":"Chris Crutcher","tags":["aids","drug-use","hiv","morality","reality-check","viruses"],"id":197430,"author_id":"Chris+Crutcher"},{"text":"Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learning the art of acceptance: not acceptance of defeat or acceptance of some inability to influence their own futures, but rather acceptance of life on the planet, acceptance of the grays rather than the black-and-whites, acceptance of the astonishing range of human emotion and human behavior.","author":"Chris Crutcher","tags":["acceptance","behavior","emotions","heroes","human-nature","truths"],"id":208642,"author_id":"Chris+Crutcher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}