Kenneth Patchen Quotes.

1. "Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?"
- Quote by Kenneth Patchen

2. "The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind."
- Quote by Kenneth Patchen

3. "There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?"
- Quote by Kenneth Patchen

4. "Art is not to throw light but to be light..."
- Quote by Kenneth Patchen

5. "There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death."
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6. "God must have loved the people in power, for he made them so much like their own image of him."
- Quote by Kenneth Patchen

7. "It's dark out, Jack, the stations out there don't identify themselves, we're in it raw-blind like burned rats, it's running out all around us, the footprints of the beast, one nobody has any notion of. The white and vacant eyes of something above there, something that doesn't know we exist. I smell heartbreak up there, Jack, a heartbreak at the center of things, and in which we don't figure at all."
- Quote by Kenneth Patchen

8. "Our supper is plain but we are very wonderful."
- Quote by Kenneth Patchen

9. "Then I felt her hand .... ** ....while I tried to get away ..... "Please, Mrs. Pippin!" .... She took her ... **** ... panting and saying .......... as she ........ under the bed where I thought I'd be safe for a little while, but she reached under and ... ** ..... Just then someone opened the door and I said, "Help!Help!" as loud as I could but he only smiled and said, "Well that's one I'll have to try sometime." as Mrs. Pippin ...."
- Quote by Kenneth Patchen

10. "I tell you that what has changed is the whole conception of human life- that men of every race on this earth may have the same opportunity to live beautifully- to live in purity without fear or hunger or hatred- as brothers, not as brutes tearing through these hideous swamps of ignorance and war. Men speak of a belief in God. I am beginning to understand what every Christ- and their skins have been every color- what every Christ has taught: That love of God is love of mankind. That no one can profess to love God while he hates the least of his fellows. Jesus, if He were on earth right now, would fight to free men from oppression and evil and war; and you who have made a pious mockery of his every commandment- you would kill Him."
- Quote by Kenneth Patchen